samirvarma Everyone interested in fundamental physics should read the new book by Sabine Hossenfelder @skdh (..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…dw
“‘Where are they?’ — probably extremely far away, and quite possibly beyond the cosmological horizon and forever un.twitter.com/i/web/status/1…F7n
@samirvarma Yes, it’s the Arrow of Jello problem.
Also, jello is irreversible. twitter.com/samirvarma/sta…
“Stupid” is not wrong but gets us nowhere. “Mis-calculated”(or “uncalculated”) is much worse b/c this will likely e..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…fp
Maybe the best we could hope from the Singapore agreement is that it boosted leadership skepticism in DPRK, too twitter.com/JChengWSJ/stat…
Everyone wins something from “peace”. But here the cost is high: validation of a new but non-compliant nuclear powe..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…mL
That’s it then? Big smiles and fat-jokes? A pact to absolve Kim? Mr Trump has insults for allies but cuddles for di..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…MW
“Some White House officials say the historic handshake… may be the singular result.” Ugh! Now WSJ adopts this sil..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…aQ
Mr Trump’s “piggy bank that everyone is robbing…” has enjoyed net long-term capital inflows (Treasuries, corporat..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…1w
@Lucian_Cernat @dikenson @SimonEvenett @BaldwinRE Thank you! A nice approach to answering a specific, common questi..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…lc
@dikenson @SimonEvenett @BaldwinRE @Lucian_Cernat Depends on aggregation in the HS. Possibly. Cetainly by eyeballin..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…kP
spectatorindex IMAGE: Families of flight MH17 victims place 298 empty seats in front of Russian embassy in the Netherlands
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@dikenson @SimonEvenett @BaldwinRE @Lucian_Cernat Also, these ratios are modelled estimates. The only actual observ..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…UX
#Somewhere “‘Imagine Trump doing Brexit,’ Mr. [Boris]Johnson went on. ‘There’d be all sorts of breakdowns, all sort..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…8w
@chip_roh @scottlincicome Uh… no. Better not. Also peanuts.
Two things about trade decision-making in the Trump WH. (1) Every big trade decision in my experience emerged after..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…pM
You thought #Brexit was moving slowly? “The decision on whether to build the first full-length runway in the south-..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…a7
@sdonnan Glad to hear this Shawn. Look forward to your work at Bloomberg. Peter
… by ‘credible demands’, I mean specific requests of the kind found in any trade negotiation: tariffs, administer..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…uK
The ‘trade war’ label is premature if CHN is still making offers. Still, USA approach seems incoherent. They know w..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…xm
The new pomposity spreads: now we have “singular” when what is meant is “single”. Unlike “utilise” (= “use”) — a fe.twitter.com/i/web/status/1…vbP
…or to ask the same question another way… Mr Trump wants trade partners to sanction the USA. Should they agree? Ptwitter.com/i/web/status/1…r4rWNQ
Mr Trump evidently knows nothing of the gains from trade or the role of trade in the US economy. So it’s no surpris..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…75
@alan_john_moran Fair enough. My answer is “yes it discriminates (no rebate, unreasonable burden, look at the conse..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…5d
@alan_john_moran Alan I don’t have a model of the competitive impacts (maybe the PC does?) but I don’t know of any..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…N5
SincDavidson Self-imposed trade sanctions. pic.twitter.com/jTa9l2uEBk
@alan_john_moran GST on imports is not trade-discrimination. Still, in most cases it’s just a tariff, not part of t..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…Cw