It's definitely a problem inside too - for example Luxembourg has cheap petrol prices and everyone near the border drives there to fill up, which is obviously a bad outcome overall, since people are … (View Post)

You don't insist on everyone in global trade having *equal* standards because people understand that poorer countries will have lower standards than rich ones, and it matters less if the other countr… (View Post)

We know that some regulations have a cost in competitiveness, but are still worth doing. The reason the EU has common standards is because otherwise there's a perverse incentive to try to undercut ea… (View Post)

On topic, for all the ludicrousness of the execution, Trump has managed to get a state, Wisconsin, to miss the safe harbour deadline. He's also got most of his side agreeing that the election was rig… (View Post)

IDK, Boris is very ideologically flexible, maybe he can lead the breentry. (View Post)