Ryan Young (@RegoftheDay) / X

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"Optimal decision-making should never be the goal of monetary policy. It just isn't possible...The best the Fed can do is to follow a monetary policy rule when setting interest rates." - @JaiKedia via @barronsonline barrons.com/articles/feder…

Ryan Young

@RegoftheDay

Jul 20

Notice that today's tariff announcement happened after markets closed.

Trump Imposes Additional 50% Tariffs on Certain Canadian Goods

“His learning is too often borrowed, and his arguments are too often his own.” -Edward Gibbon with an all-timer of a scholarly burn, *The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire*, Chapter 28, footnote 53.

Ryan Young

@RegoftheDay

Jul 8

I can think of many people in DC who need to answer this question for themselves. I look forward to hearing their honest answers someday.

Aaron Rupar

@atrupar

Jul 8

WOW -- Danish reporter *goes there* with Mark Rutte "You sit next to Donald Trump at moments when he talks about conquering Greenland, talks about lashing out at allies like Spain -- things it doesn't seem like the old Mark Rutte would approve of. Does this have any affect on

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Ryan Young

@RegoftheDay

Jul 7

"The main value of a trade agreement isn’t that it lowers tariffs but that it eliminates doubt." Great WSJ piece on USMCA by my old grad school friend @Dave_Hebert.

wsj.com

Opinion | USMCA Uncertainty Is Bad for Business

The Trump administration’s failure to renew the U.S.-Mexico-Canada pact in its current form is a gift to lobbyists and will discourage investment.