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Japan is better today thanks to PM Shinzo Abe
News, Noah Smith, Published on 30/08/2020
» Shinzo Abe, Japan's longest-serving prime minister, is resigning due to ulcerative colitis. He leaves behind a Japan that is economically stronger and more socially liberal than the one he inherited.
China’s US trade plan a red herring
News, Noah Smith, Published on 22/01/2019
» There has been an unexpected development in the US-China trade war. Chinese trade officials apparently offered a huge concession earlier this month: a promise to completely eliminate its trade surplus with the US by 2024. The offer was off the record, but it's still a huge surprise, especially given the haphazard and clumsy way that President Donald Trump has chosen to fight his trade war.
Economists in the age of Trump
News, Noah Smith, Published on 12/01/2017
» Economists are going to have to approach things a bit differently if they want to stay relevant in the Trump age. Research is going to become more important. Some humility wouldn't hurt. And they should look someplace other than the federal government to test their ideas.
Kudlow is a troubling economics adviser for Trump
News, Noah Smith, Published on 21/12/2016
» Donald Trump is reportedly close to picking Larry Kudlow to be the chairman of his Council of Economic Advisers. This will doubtless annoy many economists and policy wonks because Mr Kudlow isn't an economist -- he didn't even major in econ in college. He's an econ commentator, much like me, but without the academic training.
How to fill the void once Trump kills off the TPP
News, Noah Smith, Published on 01/12/2016
» The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), which would have created trade links between the US, Japan and a number of other Asian countries, is dead. Donald Trump has vowed to kill the pact on his first day in office. That won't be a hard promise to keep, as the trade deal was already effectively dead -- Mr Trump's move is just a flourish.
Don't count on a crash from a Trump trade war
News, Noah Smith, Published on 22/11/2016
» Talk of war is in the air -- trade war!
Building a tower of jumbled jargon
News, Noah Smith, Published on 08/04/2016
» In Lewis Carroll's Through the Looking Glass, Humpty Dumpty proudly declares: "When I use a word, it means just what I choose it to mean -- neither more nor less." To which Alice replies: "The question is whether you can make words mean so many different things."
Why was stock market bubble allowed to develop?
News, Noah Smith, Published on 10/07/2015
» Watching an asset bubble burst is a little like watching a tornado: you know lives are being destroyed, yet nature's awesome power has a strange, terrifying beauty.