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Phew!
Breaking now: Ministry of Economics reporting the tariffs have not caused significant changes to our trading volumes
April 4, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Phew!
A brilliantly simple explanation about how trade - especially in servces! - both works AND is good for both side of the trade! BTW, Tim Harford is the best and most readable economics journalist on the planet!
One of my very first columns, twenty years ago, was about the daftness of eliminating bilateral trade deficits.
We hired a babysitter to look after Baby Harford (who has now long since grown up and left home).
Bilateral trade deficit with babysitter. Sad!
timharford.com/2005/12/a-tr...
We hired a babysitter to look after Baby Harford (who has now long since grown up and left home).
Bilateral trade deficit with babysitter. Sad!
timharford.com/2005/12/a-tr...
A trade deficit with a babysitter
The Undercover Economist – FT Magazine, 10 December 2005Cheap foreign labour has recently made inroads into the economy of Family Harford. My wife pays a student, “Sally”, to look after the i…
timharford.com
April 4, 2025 at 9:55 AM
A brilliantly simple explanation about how trade - especially in servces! - both works AND is good for both side of the trade! BTW, Tim Harford is the best and most readable economics journalist on the planet!
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34 million users now and growing rapidly!
April 4, 2025 at 9:39 AM
34 million users now and growing rapidly!
Public statements don't get much more important than this.
Proud to be a signatory of this statement from 1900 members of NASEM:
We call on the administration to cease its wholesale assault on U.S. science, and we urge the public to join this call.
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
We call on the administration to cease its wholesale assault on U.S. science, and we urge the public to join this call.
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
Public Statement on Supporting Science for the Benefit of All Citizens
TO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE We all rely on science. Science gave us the smartphones in our pockets, the navigation systems in our cars, and life-saving medical care. We count on engineers when we drive acr...
docs.google.com
March 31, 2025 at 10:56 PM
Public statements don't get much more important than this.
Hello! I have finally set up my personal Bluesky account! 34 million of us can't be wrong!
March 29, 2025 at 9:37 PM
Hello! I have finally set up my personal Bluesky account! 34 million of us can't be wrong!