Reupping for late risers/west-coasters in the US. RE:

My Trade Secrets today. Even a less chaotic US president than Trump would struggle to reorder the world trading system. Countries want tech trans...

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Alan Beattie 9 months ago

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Alan Beattie 9 months ago

My Trade Secrets today. Even a less chaotic US president than Trump would struggle to reorder the world trading system. Countries want tech transfer and export demand. The US is behind China on a lot of tech and won't do trade deals to increase market access. And Trump is making everything worse. [Trump discovers the US is no l...](https://on.ft.com/44HVgXN )

Alan Beattie 9 months ago

Scott Bessent repeating the same stuff about imbalances and the IMF not doing its job that every US Treasury official says. Here's then Treasury under-secretary Tim Adams delivering the same speech in 2005. [content.govdelivery.com/accounts/UST...](

U.S. Department of the Treasury

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent Remarks before the Institute of International Finance

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Alan Beattie 9 months ago

Once again on this auspicious date of April 23 I feel the need to remind everyone that Shakespeare was born in what is now Turkey, never visited England and almost certainly could not speak or read English.