The US is now running -- see the August data - a 4% of GDP goods and services trade deficit. How is that being financed -- strong foreign demand for US risk assets ... 1/2 https://t.co/NUsmoSJYRh
Gosh, $200/bbl oil? Who would ever put such an outrageous number out there... 😅 引用 @OilHeadlineNews:Vitol chief warns of tanker shortage and risk of $200-a-barrel oil Head of world’s largest independent oil trader says shipping squeeze is creating new bottleneck despite increased Gulf flows @sta
Early in the war I wondered why we didn't see more ships risking the journey across Hormuz for big profits despite obvious danger Easily enough spread—early in the war Gulf oil prices were functionally negative—to pay for sky-high insurance & crew hazard pay Well, we got there: https://t.co/f8IwKE
Peter Harrell on the Franco-German proposals to strengthen Europe's response to the second China shock 引用 @petereharrell:Lets unpack the new Franco-German paper proposing fundamental changes to how the EU manages trade policy and which, if implemented, would mark the most significant change to EU-C
Kinda interesting that everyone focused on the rolling 12W changes in open vs. closed and when it got most pronounced everyone was freaking out. last two weeks with really good model releases (Opus 5.5, Sol 6.1) closed actually TOOK back share on volume. It's 52% open - 48% https://t.co/cDMNZtwUcd
I do think tariff differentials matter, not just the absolute level -- and so do America's trade partners. Everyone last year negotiated to get a slightly lower tariff than their neighbors/ trade competitors. The impact of 12.5% on China was muted by going to 10% on almost
Good morning. From the FT: "A sharp sell-off in US government bonds is starting to reverberate across corporate America, forcing companies to overhaul their borrowing plans and even raising the spectre of defaults among the most lowly rated businesses." Remember the historical https://t.co/tzvwm7W2N
Red dye will be added to all US diesel for both broad highway fuel tax relief and to remind voters of which colour to vote for in the midterms. 引用 @DeItaone:TRUMP TO UNVEIL PLAN ON RED-DYED DIESEL ON MONDAY: OFFICIALS
China has the capacity to produce 50-55 million cars -- The domestic market has fallen from ~ 25m cars to ~20 m cars this year China could easily export 2-3m cars to the US AND its 1.5m cars to Europe https://t.co/3rQ50C7jvW 引用 @BaldingsWorld:One of my favorite parts of this is most everyone miss
Hormuz oil flows rose to their highest level of the war and then the number of successful Iranian strikes on Hormuz tankers spiked over the past week, Hormuz flow appearing to slow somewhat. Had heard that even before this latest escalation CENTCOM was regularly intercepting
Some questions I have about the recent escalation of Iranian strikes: https://t.co/hsAzkec3dE 引用 @Rory_Johnston:Hormuz oil flows rose to their highest level of the war and then the number of successful Iranian strikes on Hormuz tankers spiked over the past week, Hormuz flow appearing to slow somewh
China rebalanced away from property investment and back toward exports -- bigly. numbers are very clear That is the issue that the world (apart from the US President, who prefers to dream of arches, golf courses and ballrooms) is now confronting in various ways https://t.co/7kD46OJFMa 引用 @Balding
Standard ballpark calculations would support the argument that the surge in Chinese imports (~1 pp pf GDP, which drove a similar increase in non oil imports) would lead to a reduction in manufacturing employment of ~ 1m (1/4 of the 3.5 or so lost in early 00s) ... especially as 引用 @joefrancis505:Th
as noted before, China's manufacturing trade surplus surged during this period (up 1 pp of GDP) ... and I always thought economists accepted that large swings in the trade balance did have an impact on the composition of employment and output ...
If implemented through the EU’s law-making apparatus, it [the Franco-German letter] would mark a dramatic shift in how the bloc intends to confront China. The main novelty is a “second-strike capability” 2/3 https://t.co/HjAMNOCB8O
"Emmanuel Macron and Friedrich Merz want to grant Brussels powers to hit back quickly at countries that retaliate when the EU imposes trade measures over allegedly unfair competition ... “It is a political signal to show Beijing that Europe, and Germany, mean business,” says a
* a much bigger tariff differential was put forward in the campaign, and the 20% across the board (no exclusions, including for electronics) tariff of Trump 2's first year did have an impact (final assembly for computers left China nearly completely). the fentanyl tariff is no
The Trump 1 tariffs did have some positive effects -- notably insulating the US auto sector from the second China shock. I have not seen any real evidence that the 2.5% tariff differential between China and Europe is doing much at all* 2/2
Lighthizer (Trump 1) introduced a 25% tariff on about 1/2 of US imports in 2017. Those sectors are now 1/4 to 1/3 of current imports from China. Trump 2 now has tariffs on trade with China to 12.5% (after going much higher), and either 12.5% or 10% on most other trade partners 引用 @BaldingsWorld:
The change to Europe's trade in key sectors occurred quite quickly. The overall balance in say autos was pretty stable going into 2024. It has now fallen in 1/2 if batteries (in HS 85) and added to the total https://t.co/7Pi3KgMUSv 引用 @SanderTordoir:A change of tune in the business community.
Across America, families and workers claimed $82 billion in direct tax relief. Ninety-seven percent of filers who would have otherwise owed taxes received a tax cut —and 96% of those who received one earned less than $200,000. More money in workers’ pockets. More opportunity for
Under Biden, everyday prices in Pennsylvania rose 19.2%, costing the average family more than $28,460. Under President Trump, core inflation has fallen from 3.3% to 2.4%. The Working Families Tax Cuts protected 223,000 Pennsylvania jobs and preserved $21 billion in wages and $40
If you have been worried sick about this... --- (Bloomberg) -- Elon Musk is a trillionaire again. The fortune of the world’s richest person jumped by $65 billion on Monday to $1.04 trillion, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, as the value of his stakes in SpaceX and
Trump says “Canada does all their business with us, we do very little business with them.” Sure looks like a lot of red to me, and I think some of those states might be important in an upcoming election 🤷🏻♂️ https://t.co/1rChTt99ch 引用 @atrupar:Trump: "Canada behaves very badly with the United S