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"What businesses crave is clarity and stability in policymaking. Those jumping on an anti-net zero bandwagon are offering neither," former chief leader writer for the Times @nixonsimon.bsky.social writes in @prospectmagazine.co.uk. www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/697...

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Agreed!

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Well worth your time, as is Simon’s regular column in @bylinetimes.bsky.social

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"The idea that these tensions over trade will be limited just to trade is definitely a concern..." @nixonsimon.bsky.social talks #TrumpTariffs and their long term dangers with @goldbergradio.bsky.social From @bylinetimes.bsky.social pod.fo/e/2c7397

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Thrilled to spot this endorsement of my Wealth of Nations newsletter in the @economist.com Cafe Europa newsletter. Please do subscribe if you’re interested in European political economy and geoeconomics! open.substack.com/pub/nixons

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"You can't place any reliance or trust in the US political system/policy making process, to act in a rational way..." @nixonsimon.bsky.social assess the long term economic and political cost of #TrumpTariffs @goldbergradio.bsky.social @bylinetimes.bsky.social pod.fo/e/2c7397

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Absolutely thrilled to see this endorsement of my Wealth of Nations newsletter in the @economist.com Cafe Europa newsletter - and from such a distinguished source

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He still doesn't know who started the war. Or pretends not to know

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Politicians like Kemi Badenoch say the clean energy transition is impossible—but the private sector understands it’s the only way to lower prices, writes @nixonsimon.bsky.social. www.prospectmagazine...

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"What #Trump has unleashed here is a catastrophe..." @nixonsimon.bsky.social talks to @goldbergradio.bsky.social about the "irreversible" economic and political consequences of #TrumpTariffs From @bylinetimes.bsky.social pod.fo/e/2c7393

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NEW EPISODE: The economics and geopolitics of #TrumpTariffs @goldbergradio.bsky.social hears from @nixonsimon.bsky.social @alexhh.bsky.social From @bylinetimes.bsky.social podfollow.com/byline-podca...

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The president's tariff policy is as clear as a muddy stream.

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Very much enjoyed this discussion, even if what we were talking about is deeply troubling

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Trump is not just damaging the investability of Treasuries: some of the world’s biggest pension funds are halting or reassessing their private market investments into the US, saying they will not resume until the country stabilises after its erratic policy blitz on.ft.com/44uMU5A

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Sunday’s @thetimes.com cartoon times.newsprints.co.uk/morten-morla...

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Well said - @nixonsimon.bsky.social in @prospectmagazine.co.uk - Brexit, Trump and what we owe Mark Caney.

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I don’t think this point is getting nearly enough attention. American governance is so broken and its policy making so capricious that it has become a source of global financial instability in its own right. Hard to see how that changes

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If Trump had not blinked on his crackpot reciprocal tariffs yesterday, America would have been plunged into a deep financial crisis and the Fed would have been forced to start buying bonds like a failing emerging market. The damage to America's credibility would have been devastating. My latest

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Another reason to sell Treasury’s and dump the dollar

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Life comes at you hard

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Highly recommended!

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If Trump had not blinked on his crackpot reciprocal tariffs yesterday, America would have been plunged into a deep financial crisis and the Fed would have been forced to start buying bonds like a failing emerging market. The damage to America's credibility would have been devastating. My latest

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You can tell from the expressions on their faces that they realise the game is up

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My latest on Trump's inevitable capitulation to economic and financial reality. It may be one of the great U-turns in history, but it won't be enough to end the debilitating uncertainty - and it certainly won't be enough to restore wrecked trust in Uncle Sam

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Whatever…

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My latest on Trump's inevitable capitulation to economic and financial reality. It may be one of the great U-turns in history, but it won't be enough to end the debilitating uncertainty - and it certainly won't be enough to restore wrecked trust in Uncle Sam

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Alas, this Brexit dividend had a shorter lifespan than the Truss premiership. Abandon hope all ye who build their arguments on the whims of Donald Trump. www.ft.com/content/dc23...

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“Britain is shackled to a corpse.” Gosh this is good

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Scott Bessent helped deliver Britain’s Black Wednesday in 1992, now he has just presided over America’s own Black Wednesday. People will one day write musicals about him. But for now he is the diminished Treasury Secretary of a discredited administration

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Wow, even Fox News is now reporting the truth. Did Rupert Murdoch give them permission?

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Scott Bessent arrogantly assumed that being chief steward of the global financial system would be a breeze for a hedge fund genius like him. Instead his first significant intervention as Treasury Secretary is to quell a self-inflicted global firestorm by announcing a humiliating U-turn

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Desperate stuff. We are asked to believe that this debacle was Trump’s strategy all along

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Trump blinks in the face of market carnage and looming crisis but still manages to usher in another 90 days of uncertainty while encouraging China to carry on doing its worst. Hardly optimal, but however the MAGA loons spin it, it’s a retreat and he’s diminished by it

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That bailout with its decades of concessional funding now looking like the deal of the century

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What Europe can learn from Mark Carney - my latest for @prospectmagazine.co.uk on the new leader of the free world www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/world/north-...

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Wow. This is emerging market stuff. Try to keep your fiscal plates spinning by getting domestic banks to buy your shitty bonds that everyone else is dumping

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This is a key point. There was global shock when it turned out that a bunch of clueless clowns under Truss had seized control of a G7 economy but also an assumption that it was a Brexit phenomenon and so unlikely to be repeated elsewhere. In fact, it was a warning that no country is immune to morons

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