Dmitry Grozoubinski
Author of Why Politicians Lie About Trade | Trade and Negotiations Explainer. Forever D&D DM.
🇺🇦 Born. 🇦🇺 Raised. 🇨🇭 Based.
Media and training: explaintrade.com
Consultancy network: auroramacro.com
Speaking representation: cwgspeakers.com
- "Keir Starmer to cap immigration at 0, blow up the arrivals terminals at all major UK airports and order the Royal Navy to shoot approaching vessels on sight - but in greatest Brexit betrayal yet, still refuses to allow us to hunt people with foreign vibes for sport! Only Farage can save us."
- 90 day suspension of US and Chinese tariffs on one another down up 10% (plus fentanyl, plus base). So a Chinese good that had a 2.5% tariff into the US in 2024 would be charged (10 + 10 + 2.5)% tariffs. xhnewsapi.xinhuaxmt.com/share/news?i...
- The belief that the effectiveness of right wing immigration scaremongering is remotely linked to actual migration statistics, and if you can get those low enough they'll be defanged, is so endearingly naive. Like how a child raised by monks in a secluded temple might imagine political debate works.
- By the definition Mr Cleese offers, Fox News, the Daily Mail, and Libs of TikTok are significantly woker than Greta Thunberg.
- Huge thank you to the US and UK teams for putting this utterly ambiguous line in the text, so we all get to enjoy weeks of wild speculation. My best guess is they didn't actually agree a list but didn't want to delay the big VE day announce party and are hoping it all works itself out.
- 1/ UK-US Trade Deal: Pre-Thoughts a) I beg you to wait for the text before speculating wildly. b) While the 10% US tariff on everything from everywhere is annoying for the UK, the much higher tariffs on cars and steel is prohibitive.
