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(A) Tariffs are a trivial factor in why the French don’t drink more US wine. (B) The whole point of trade is this wacky thing called “comparative advantage.” They SHOULDN’T be drinking more US wine, any more than we should be buying more French cars.
If you think that “fair” trade means two countries sending each other the same products in roughly equal quantities, then you have fundamentally failed to grasp the point of trade.
New York buys many potatoes from Idaho! Yet Idaho buys few potatoes from New York! Very unfair!
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Had the same thought: a face-saving way to surrender in a game of shutdown chicken that’s not going as he hoped. Concede the funding fight on the pretense he can just do it by executive fiat, then either fume in mock shock & horror when it turns out he can’t, OR...
...scrounge some pittance from unallocated funds, and pretend that the wall got built, as he already does half the time anyway.
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Having polished off the last of Ruiz Zafon’s “Cemetery of Forgotten Books” tetralogy, I decided to reread the first, “Shadow of the Wind,” in Spanish. Lucia Graves is a brilliant translator, but my god is the original prose miles better. And I loved it in English.
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Debunking WTO, and what "trading on WTO terms" really means...

As EU members, we participate in over 750 international treaties.

Many relate to trade, enabling us to trade freely with the EU, the EEA, and 40+ other countries. 1/26
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Programming is this weird profession where we intone with humility that "Programs are written to be read." and for that reason, if a recursive algorithm is elegant and has a century of mathematical precedence behind it, but some programmer might find it confusing, we rewrite it.
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#b Excellence is overrated, competence is underrated.
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