Delivering Starmer’s promises will depend on rewiring UK ‘Treasury brain’ via Financial Times
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No more in reserve.

Rather than tax Chinese imports (delaying green transition) or complaining about Chinese “overcapacity” — a better response would be to do as China did and leverage the size of the US domestic market to force tech transfers and domestic localization

'Manele’s election as PM all but assures that the Solomon Islands will continue the Beijing-friendly policies that the country has adopted in recent years, beginning with the switch of diplomatic recognition from Taiwan to China in 2019.' World Politics Review

The most robust fact about industrial policy is this: Every nation on earth tried to modernize and industrialize in the 20th century. Everyone that tried protectionist import-substitution failed; some who tried export-led growth succeeded. Gillian Tett ft.com/content/ef12d3…

Go right ahead. Do we really give a shit about the PA? You guys have fucked up the occupied territories so bad that the PA is useless for any real solution anyway. As I’ve been saying since 10/7, we must intervene decisively and create a state of Palestine, otherwise this…

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You tired, old, irrelevant fraud.

Tooze has in many ways. But is he a leftist? Anyway, my hypothesis is that not owning up to admiration for Russia, China or Iran is just part of the discipline that’s imposed on the entire Western intelligentsia and hardly exclusive to the Left. Ya pick your battles.

Does liberalism really want to die on this hill?

What is a class signal?

The United States is the only member to vote against granting Palestine U.N. membership.

This is Joe Biden's policy. #RejectAIPAC

Tim Scott Tim Scott is paid to push the Israel lobby's preferred legislation. He has received >$378,000 from AIPAC and their allies, now their anti-free speech legislation is on the fast track to become law.

Our government is being hijacked by a foreign entity. #RejectAIPAC

Um, the West is hell-bent on garrisoning the world economy. It is China that is committed to an open system. Also, the recentering of supply chains has already happened. What is new is that we can’t compete with the Chinese in strategic industries. While we bailed out our SUV…

Guys, I dunno if I can use the printer anymore. It just assumes that you’re stupid.

Maybe The Oracle of Omaha is just a lucky betting man, eh? w/o his massive bet on AAPL, he'd have made a loss over the past decade—that wager alone accounts for 116% of his profit! In any case, he didn't even beat the SPY despite holding a unit beta portfolio.

Out of crisis, a path forward for the UK?

The reason it is a hairbrained idea is not that it puts the US at risk of war in the MidEast—if either KSA or ISL is attacked, we will be pulled in regardless of the deal. The reason it is a harebrained idea is that it puts Saudi stability at risk, for the obvious reason.

Reuters reports that the audio was digitally altered. reuters.com/article/idUSL1…