bentleyallan.bsky.social
Professor at Johns Hopkins University: climate, energy, industrial policy, geopolitics.
Hats: Net Zero Industrial Policy Lab ⚡️// Carnegie Endowment 🌐 // Transition Accelerator 🇨🇦
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Books about UFOs on repeat this week. Kids love it.
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Neutral Milk Hotel
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Trying to pick my identity in that crowd…
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@bdecarvalho.bsky.social @halvardl.bsky.social
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Richter playing Prokofiev's Piano Concerto No. 5, from 1932. A fitting soundtrack for today.
youtu.be/z_J1dgBDoOA?...
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A reporter asked me yesterday if there was any silver lining for the United States.
“No.”
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Mexico and Canada are NOT subject to these because they're dealing with the 25 percent fentanyl tariffs. If the U.S. lifts those, then they will have to deal with the new reciprocal regime. (3/n)
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Click it
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Totally fair.
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I feel you, but we have bombardier, and car parts manufacturing capacity that may soon have lots of slack...
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For context the Development Finance Corp (DFC) provides funding for projects in low income countries abroad. It can provide loans, loan guarantees, and take equity stakes. It’s a critical piece of the US tool kit for building overseas supply chains and creating diplomatic support for the US.
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This tells me you don’t spend enough on positional goods.
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My understanding is this is separate from eeg. Stand-alone new money funded by debt.
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Not bad but 100bn euros for the transition over 12 years is … not enough
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I thought reciprocal tariffs were the golden rule
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Corruption is a powerful theme with Teslas being hawked in the White House, contracts going to insider firms, and Trump lining his pockets. Label it all as corrupt and explain how the institution of democracy helps to eliminate it, plus it safeguards freedom, creates prosperity, etc.
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The lesson of Pocock’s reading of the founders is that if you are going to defend democracy you had better explain what problem democracy is going to solve. And, crucially for the present moment, eliminating corruption is a great candidate with a long historical lineage.
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Corruption threatened virtue which was the expression of liberty in collective life. Only a government in which they directly participated in could eliminate corruption.
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According to Pocock, a principal end of a democratic republic was to stop Corruption (of Americans by the British and their Empire).