Alex Van Steenbergen
@alexvsbe.bsky.social
Economist by trade. At home in Belgium. Occasional writing. Continuous coffee drinking. Piti piti, zwazo fè nich li.
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Fuckin brilliant. A+ work here team. I am so glad there are such smart people working on our trade policy.
Import Chinese battery inside Chinese laptop: 20% tariff
Import Chinese battery inside Vietnamese laptop: 0% tariff
Fuckin brilliant. A+ work here team. I am so glad there are such smart people working on our trade policy.
April 12, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Import Chinese battery: 145% tariff
Import Chinese battery inside Chinese laptop: 20% tariff
Import Chinese battery inside Vietnamese laptop: 0% tariff
Fuckin brilliant. A+ work here team. I am so glad there are such smart people working on our trade policy.
Import Chinese battery inside Chinese laptop: 20% tariff
Import Chinese battery inside Vietnamese laptop: 0% tariff
Fuckin brilliant. A+ work here team. I am so glad there are such smart people working on our trade policy.
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People responding to this by saying "the press has normalized this": this interview was aired on MSNBC. I am reading many reports about conflicts of interest, in a wide range of media. If you aren't reading them, then that's your fault. It's not the press who don't care - it's Americans.
December 13, 2024 at 7:27 AM
People responding to this by saying "the press has normalized this": this interview was aired on MSNBC. I am reading many reports about conflicts of interest, in a wide range of media. If you aren't reading them, then that's your fault. It's not the press who don't care - it's Americans.
An implication of Macron's remark is that "smart" leaders are all that is needed to make development work. Haiti has disproven that claim long time ago. End/
November 27, 2024 at 6:45 PM
An implication of Macron's remark is that "smart" leaders are all that is needed to make development work. Haiti has disproven that claim long time ago. End/
Without claiming much background knowledge on the particular incident Macron was reacting too, i've learned that haiti's political actors do rationally follow their logic, with destructive effects 2/
November 27, 2024 at 1:10 PM
Without claiming much background knowledge on the particular incident Macron was reacting too, i've learned that haiti's political actors do rationally follow their logic, with destructive effects 2/
... see this one by the latest Nobel prize winner and his team, and ... 2/
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Social Origins of Dictatorships: Elite Networks and Political Transitions in Haiti | American Political Science Review | Cambridge Core
Social Origins of Dictatorships: Elite Networks and Political Transitions in Haiti - Volume 115 Issue 3
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November 23, 2024 at 5:53 PM
... see this one by the latest Nobel prize winner and his team, and ... 2/
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...