Monthly Archive: August 2025
A strange luxury is alive in wealthy democracies: the liberty to dabble in terrible ideas and rarely have to pay the complete tab. Lets call this “The Western Privilege of Terrible Economics”. From fashionable...
I’m an American living in Switzerland, which means I’m watching this trade war unfold from the wrong side of the Atlantic. On the 7th of August, the US slapped a 39% tariff on Swiss...
The international trading system is broken. Through years of asymmetric globalization, the U.S. has seen the rise of global rivals and domestic economic stagnation. Over the past 20 years, America has transferred over $20...