Browsing: Economy
Brad Setser estimates the costs at 0.8 percent of U.S: gdp. I am not sure if he is considering exchange…
The imposition of high tariffs by President Donald Trump yesterday suggests a review of the elementary economics of this sort…
In The Spirit of the Laws, Montesquieu famously argued that: …Peace is the natural effect of trade. Two nations who…
Oh the howls that claim elicited. Basically Dallas did not want to give him a Supermax extension for $345 million…
Owen Hatherley, Militant Modernism. A very good short book, defending “left wing modernism,” a much maligned target on the right…
Studies of happiness often find a positive correlation between income and subjective well-being. Put simply, rich people tend to be…
1. Opportunity cost?? 2. Is Tether the most profitable company in the world per employee? 3. Flow (trailer), the animated…
We study China’s export growth to the United States from 1950–2008, using a structural model to disentangle the effects of…
By Ray C. Fair, an important contribution: This paper examines the history of U.S. infrastructure since 1929 and in the process…
Or are they tariff threats instead? Still bad! From the FT: Donald Trump has said he will hit the EU…