Michael Pettis Continues to Blunder

Michael Pettis Continues to Blunder

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Tweet Here’s a letter to a long-time “unsympathetic but friendly” Café patron. Ms. C__: Thanks for sending Michael Pettis’s recent X-thread on trade. I’m afraid, however, that I don’t share your high opinion of his string of tweets. It’s a march of missteps. I haven’t the time to detail them all, so I’ll address just one of his foundational fallacies. He’s wrong to write that in a world in which governments use neither subsidies nor protectionist interventions “countries […]

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How Strong Is the Case for Retaliatory Tariffs?

How Strong Is the Case for Retaliatory Tariffs?

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Tweet In my latest column for AIER I examine the case for retaliatory tariffs and find it wanting. Two slices: A familiar excuse for protective tariffs and other trade restrictions goes like this: It would be all well and good for our government to follow a policy of free trade if other governments did the same. But other governments don’t do the same. Other governments use tariffs and subsidies to give producers in their countries unfair advantages over […]

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TikTok Took a Beating at the Supreme Court

TikTok Took a Beating at the Supreme Court

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The Supreme Court appeared largely—though not entirely—unmoved by arguments that a federal ban on TikTok would violate the First Amendment rights of the app’s millions of American users. During oral arguments before the Court on Friday, the justices seemed inclined to agree with the federal government that a national security rationale was sufficient to force the app’s Chinese parent company, ByteDance, to sell to an American company. That sale must take place before January 19, or else TikTok […]

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Saifedean on Milei

Saifedean on Milei

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Dear Lew I have translated this posts into Portuguese and published as a daily article: https://rothbardbrasil.com/avaliacao-de-um-ano-de-javier-milei/ Thanks, Fernando Fiori Chiocca .  https://x.com/saifedean/status/1877717156420341885 https://x.com/saifedean/status/1877718815061996013   The post Saifedean on Milei appeared first on LewRockwell.

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Who was that YouTuber?…

Who was that YouTuber?…

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In the early days of YouTube. The ancaps had Stefan Molyneux, of course, but there was a really good fellow whos name I don’t remember: Skinny white guy. Glasses. Always read from a script. To the point and succinct. Crappy Webcam. Bonus points if you are that guy. submitted by /u/CrowBot99 [link] [comments]

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