The let-it-die camp also still has to explain to me why politicians aren’t going to intervene anyway when the pressure mounts further.

The realistic choice in my view is do smart policy or wait for a hot mess of bailouts and crappy policy.

Germany can either get out of its comfort zone and take industrial policy, trade defences, and currency issues seriously — or it can resign itself to deindustrialisation.

China’s $2 trillion manufacturing surplus won’t wait for Berlin to catch up.

13/13

i don’t think you can maximin vote share with polls and spreadsheets, and i think it is a problem that the most prominent and influential political commentators right now are more devotees of data than experts in narrative

I think USTR under Biden made huge inroads in opening up public engagement, but there's always more to do. If we get the chance to rebuild from the ashes, hopefully we can hire back a more diverse and representative policy workforce, and thus a more pluralistic and democratic one as well.