Daniel Knowles
Midwest correspondent at The Economist, in Chicago. Before that, in London, Mumbai, Nairobi and DC.
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- Lol no
- This is why some of the best reporting is coming from places like Rolling Stone. They thrive on drunk
- It is a real problem right now that just reporting the news accurately makes you sound like a hysterical partisan
- "Countries and businesses" is a nice elision. Exporters are very unlikely to eat the tariffs, because volume manufacturing is a highly competitive low-margin game. But American importing businesses probably will, short term, eat some share of tariffs rather than raise prices
- Reposted by Daniel KnowlesWait. WHAT??!! abcnews.go.com/Politics/tru...
- Just wildly nostalgic today for when I could walk up the Ngong Hills at the weekend
- 56% of traffic in the City of London is now bicycles (I assume that is as a percentage count of individual vehicles)
- I just spent far too much money on a new camera lens. I asked the guy in the camera shop what the plan for tariffs is, and he said, basically "by the end of summer I think we will be exclusively dealing in used gear." Weirdly they haven't raised prices on existing stock though!
- I remain baffled by this business of selling awful plastic disposable camera lenses to be fitted to expensive mirrorless cameras. You too can achieve that chromatic aberration and hazy look on your $2k Sony!
- Top reporting here
- Wrote two very different, but very California, stories this week. First, on the effects of last year’s Grants Pass SCOTUS decision and the dozens of cities trying to end homelessness by force economist.com/united-state...
