Thursday, May 29, 2025

Court order on Trump tariffs: how much of a setback is it for Trump?

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The Court of International Trade has ruled that President Trump wrongly used emergency powers to impose the tariffs he announced on Liberati...

Academics and the allurement of stardom

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Everybody was shocked to hear of the firing of Francesca Gino at Harvard Business School. It's not called firing, it's called ...
Thursday, May 01, 2025

100 days of Donald Trump: demolishing to rebuild

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Paul Dans, the author of Project 2025, the grand plan prepared by the Heritage Foundation in anticipation of Trump's victory in the 2024...
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Saturday, April 26, 2025

Scott Bessent talks tough to IMF and World Bank

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Treasury Secretary's address at the IIF is worth reading. It lays out basic principles of American economic policy and also has clear i...
Thursday, April 24, 2025

US universities face challenges but will not lose dominance

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  The battle lines are drawn. More than 200 American universities and colleges have united in opposing what they regard as overreach on the ...
Tuesday, April 22, 2025

Indo-US bilateral trade talks: India caught between the US and China

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I want to flag two excellent reports on the state of play in the ongoing Indo-US trade negotiations. One report is in the Economist and it...
Saturday, April 19, 2025

The ABC of Trumponomics

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I have written quite a few pieces about President Trump and his approach to tariffs. I wrote one this week for the Hindu titled Trumponomics...
Friday, April 18, 2025

A Supreme Court judgement that could impact the US Fed's independence

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Can Trump fire US Federal Reserve Chairman, Jerome Powell? Trump's statement that Powell's "termination can't come fast eno...