With the recent changes in the US, we may be in a better negotiating position than we were. The EU needs all the friends it can get right now. (View Post)

Some people get a real kick out of being outraged. Would I have called the lines Windrush or Lioness? Nope. Am I going to get outraged and want it changed? Nope. I have better things to do than get b… (View Post)

On the other hand, you can't kiss your wife in public. (View Post)

Of course you can compare it to the current situation. If every country tries to protect exports via the use of retaliatory tariffs - as is entirely possible - then we will all get poorer. It is deep… (View Post)

If the US fails, everyone fails. When the Smoot-Hawley tariffs came into effect, other countries responded and world trade collapsed... everyone suffered. Relative outperformance was still shit. (View Post)