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Very important article by @ChadBown on why there hasn't been more pushback against Trump's trade war; it highlights the key role of de facto bribery and intimidation 1/

theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…
@ChadBown Farmers are getting bribed with huge bailouts that compensate them for the destruction of their export markets. Businesses are being intimidated by the "exclusion" process that gives some of them a break from tariffs ... 2/
@ChadBown ... but they are justifiably afraid that they won't get exclusions if they criticize admin policy. This amounts to a quiet use of the machinery of government to suppress opposition, the topic of my own column today 3/ nytimes.com/2019/09/09/opi…
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While democracy melts down, I'm going to be spending the next few days being very academic - 4 conferences in 3 cities in 5 days. (All on different topics!) One of them is about regional divergence, and I'm still thinking about this piece 1/ nytimes.com/2019/09/27/bus…
So I'm playing with a hypothesis, which is that "offsiteing" — not offshoring, which is moving stuff abroad, but just moving it to lower-cost locations in the US — may actually be contributing to divergence 2/
Sketch of a model: imagine that production requires two kinds of workers, Nerds and Clerks. Nerds benefit from the spillovers that come from being near each other, be it Silicon Valley or Wall Street. Clerks don't. But in the past they had to be located together 3/
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The underlying premise of this and many other articles is that the GOP was a different, more principled party pre-Trump. But I don't buy it. The party's descent began long before 1/ nytimes.com/2019/09/30/opi…
Consider just one issue, which happens to be the most important issue there is: climate change. If you're shocked by the willingness of Republicans to condone betrayal of America for the sake of political expediency, consider that they decided to betray the whole world 2/
All the elements of Trumpian behavior were there: refusal to accept clear evidence (Russian intervention, rising temperatures); conspiracy theories (deep state/gigantic scientific hoax); personal retribution against truth-tellers 3/
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A bit late to this, but a very interesting article. The feared mass movement of white-collar jobs overseas never happened. Ben Casselman suggests that they just moved to lower-cost locations in the US 1/ nytimes.com/2019/09/27/bus…
But even that seems not quite right. Big, high-cost metropolitan areas have been adding jobs *faster* than smaller, low-cost cities, which seems odd given the growth of telecommuting 2/ nytimes.com/2019/09/20/rea…
The key to the paradox may be that telecommuting lets companies move *some* jobs to low-cost locations — but that actually encourages concentration of other jobs in places where proximity matters. Hence the re-urbanization of corporate headquarters 3/ nytimes.com/2016/08/02/bus…
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