Being at Purdue has given me so many opportunities to work on critical issues in the ag economy! #boilerup

Some experts are worried that a threatened tax on Chinese ships visiting U.S. ports "would provide a huge advantage to Brazilian #grain #exports and greatly harm U.S. farmers." dtnpf.com/agriculture/we…

When your chief economist is just a lawyer:

Very well communicated overview of the current trade policy climate and how it affects agriculture by Andrew Muhammad (@UTAgTrade) open.spotify.com/episode/1TndMh…

Work and home

The freedom to do as he pleases may suit Donald Trump. It does not suit America’s businesses, which have no idea how bad the trade war will get; nor its consumers, who fear future inflation econ.st/4hQ7pwW

“If tariffs are so bad, why do other countries impose them?” The countries that impose tariffs are the poorest, most inefficient, lowest real growth countries on earth. Literally. If you’d rather be Argentina, Brazil, Turkey, or South Africa, instead of the United States, you

Oh my god. At the exact moment Trump announced his tariffs the market crashed in real time. CNBC is SAVAGE for doing the side by side.

Does anyone know where these numbers are coming from, how they’re calculated? #econtwitter #trade

unprecedented protests this morning on heard and macdonald islands, as the population rises up against trump imposition of 10% across the board tariffs.

Thomas Sowell condemns the Trump tariff agenda. I await the Tarrif-Bots denouncing him as a "leftist" who doesn't understand economics. foxbusiness.com/politics/legen…

"The curious task of economics is to demonstrate to men how little they really know about what they imagine they can design."--F.A. Hayek. Timelessly appropriate.

Are farmland price expectations “rational”? My thesis research digs into 40+ years of survey & market data to find out how farmers form price beliefs and why it matters. Read the full story here: open.substack.com/pub/deweyjrobe… #AgEcon #Farmland #Economics #AgTwitter

There is nothing wealth creating about tariffs and government ownership of private corporations, and there is nothing freedom loving about military in our streets or immigration restrictions. Can we at least agree on that?

This is a useful reading list on recent advances in econometrics.

Have a new blog post on China and US Soybean Exports out today. My effort to explain why zero exports to China is not a complete disaster for US soybean producers. While the situation is certainly a problem, there is a lot of scope for reshuffling of global soybean trade.

I do think Economics is a science.

The Constitution survives!