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This is pretty devastating. Lutnick admits that tariffs were never about reciprocity, eliminating foreign trade barriers, or negotiating better deals. They just don't like international trade. Period. He even says about imports: "we don't want other people making them."

submitted 11 hours ago • 0 comments

Towards a Dad Books canon.

submitted 13 hours ago • 1 comment

You have to admit, it is pretty damn funny that Thames Water granted KKR exclusivity to prepare an equity bid — freezing out the other bidders — and then they ghosted them at the eleventh hour. Detail on that, and more, in this analysis published yesterday on.ft.com/4ksRqa9

submitted 18 hours ago • 3 comments

Welcome to Europe’s Trumpageddon. Over the next five weeks, the continent must negotiate existential questions over its security, defence and economy with the mercurial US President, as officials fear being forced into a grand bargain that leaves Europe weaker and more vulnerable on.ft.com/3FF7h6g

submitted 22 hours ago • 5 comments

I... oh my god. amandaguinzburg.substack.com/p/diabolus-e...

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You still hear older folk refer to making National Insurance contributions as “paying your stamp”.

submitted 1 day ago • 13 comments

It's kind of insane, though by this point entirely understandable, that Trump's threatened FIFTY PER CENT tariffs on steel from TOMORROW and everyone's like "I mean what can we do, it'll happen or it won't".

submitted 1 day ago • 7 comments

I guess what @edwardluce.bsky.social is saying here with his usual eloquence is that nobody knows anythi**SHOT RINGS OUT**

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My Trade Secrets today. Cheer up, the worst might yet be to come. Donald Trump's tariffs mainly damage the US. If the courts really do block them and/or they don't work and he turns to other things like manipulating the global dollar payments system, it could be far worse. First 300 clicks free.

submitted 2 days ago • 5 comments

Scientists are (understandably) so sick of people not listening to them they’re just making ridiculous stuff up.

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment