Karthik Sankaran
Bay Area US. Aging macro expat. Cheap lunch guy. 1st to ever rhyme Duce and Juche. Neoliberal peacenik. Has Herder immunity. Virulent vector of dad jokes. 1/3 each phlegm, spleen & dad humors.
- History repeats itself, the first time as tragedy, then in Farsi.
- Why isn’t Airbus tarting up 380s with a Charlemagne model for Potentates?
- This is the new Voodoo Economics.
- Another thing is that Carstens and Fraga were central bankers so Powell fits that bulwark role more closer. And Bessent seems to share many of Trump’s overall ideas on remaking the international economy, while Meirelles was much more attached to orthodoxy relative to Lula.
- It’s unclear to me how anyone watching the combination of the US budgetary process and contemporaneous developments in the behavior of American consumers and firms right now can believe the size of the American trade deficit is determined wholly by decisions outside the US.
- Yet idea that deep economic engagement deterred war was one reason EU was created. And belief that excessive intertwining of US & CN economies constrains US foreign policy choices is a key argument of the Decouplers. History is just one damn sample-size problem after another.
- The (auto)biography should be titled “From Great Lake to Holy See.”
