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Comments and Response: Inflation, Tariffs, and Currencies
Yesterday’s column got a lot more response than I expected.
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Inflation, Tariffs, and Currencies
As we all have been learning, it’s a new world out there in almost every way.
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Interest rates, interest rates, interest rates
I must have 10 drafts that I started over the past weeks then stopped because something changed or I realized the topic was just growing way to big to…
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A Modest Proposal: Applying Trump's Tariff Logic for better personal living.
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Net Investment and Trade Deficits.
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Did capital outflows from the U.S. already start?
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Thinking Through Trump Tariffs
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Four Countries and Three Theories: The Modern Inflation Mystery
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War, Inflation and Debt
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Net Investment and Trade Deficits.
You can't have one without the other.
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Tariff Leverage and Sensitive Countries
As we read every day about tariffs, threats and negotiations, I thought it’d be interesting to take a very quick look at what countries are most…
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Can you replace the income tax with tariffs?
A picture from the wonderful world of autarky.
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Thinking Through Trump Tariffs
Now that the election is over, we can discuss and analyze things again without every piece of analysis needing to be pro or contra or seen in some…
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The Price Effects of Hurricanes
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Global Inflation: 1870-1900
I’ve been thinking about how to share parts of one of my research projects with you.
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Yes, I fully support these alcohol bans!
This week, I read a Financial Times article on drinking bans in Australia that made me think: Yes, I totally agree!
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