Goods diverted by high U.S. tariffs have to go somewhere
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Philip Thompson
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Philip Thompson
@Phili_Thomp
International candy smuggler. Tariffs are taxes, so are Non-tariff Barriers, services restrictions, and other artificial restraints on free-commerce. @tholos
Washington, DC Katılım Kasım 2015
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@cwamidon Without competition from foreign markets the U.S. industry has not been forced to be innovative or efficient
Open it up, and foreign firms might see opportunity to invest, modernize, and scale production i.e. Nippon
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1. Basically every developed economy has cabotage laws. Including China.
2. If you strike the Jones Act then America’s commercial maritime industry dies essentially overnight.
3. Foreign vessels will take their place and the USA will not have a commercial maritime industry.
Dominic Pino@DominicJPino
Look at all the 🇺🇸 trade that's now happening without the Jones Act in effect. And the Jones Act fleet is still fully booked. This is all extra shipping, from Americans to Americans, that's happening just because government got out of the way.
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@Safety_Canada There isn’t an equivalent with Europe
But there is with autocratic India
And so VPNs left the Indian market rather than be forced to collect metadata
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(1/2) All G7, Five Eye partners and most EU countries have lawful access frameworks that include technical obligations for electronic service providers.
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BIG NEWS
UK 🇬🇧 - 🇧🇭🇰🇼🇴🇲🇶🇦🇸🇦🇦🇪 GCC FTA
The UK is expected to agree a massive trade deal with the six-nation Gulf Cooperation Council later this week.
Yet another massive massive Brexit benefit - a deal that the EU are nowhere near getting.
archive.is/Nelm5
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Look at all the 🇺🇸 trade that's now happening without the Jones Act in effect.
And the Jones Act fleet is still fully booked. This is all extra shipping, from Americans to Americans, that's happening just because government got out of the way.
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One of the most important and under appreciated trends in the world right now.
1. 100s of billions of dollars will soon be available to solve big problems (making the world resilient to ASI, ending factory farming, etc).
2. The projects and organizations which will turn billions of 2027/28 dollars into impact need to be started NOW.
3. We need really talented people to start and run and work for these new projects. What @nanransohoff calls general managers, who feel personally resposible for solving one of the world’s important problems.
What is especially scarce are detailed visions about what making AI go well looks like. These will help inform what problems these new projects ought to work on.
Nan Ransohoff@nanransohoff
New blog post: The third wave of American philanthropy Hundreds of billions of dollars in new philanthropic capital will soon become liquid. The OpenAI Foundation holds 26% of OpenAI, worth about $220B at today’s valuation. Anthropic’s seven co-founders have pledged to give away 80% of their wealth and have instituted the most aggressive donor matching program for employees in tech history. How much does this all add up to? And how meaningful is that in the context of philanthropy today? I was doing some simple napkin math to wrap my head around the scale of what’s coming, and radicalized myself in the process. I had dramatically underappreciated the scale of the philanthropic capital that’s about to become available and the corresponding gap in talent and organizations that will be needed to make the most of it. This piece aims to directionally sketch the scale of what’s coming, the gap in operational capacity needed to absorb it, and what we can do to fill it. (Link to full post in reply)
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Domestic dependency for food is one of the lowest forms of protectionism
It's a fools arrand
Different foods grow in different climates
Trade allows an abundance of food- eradicating famine, and allowing seemless substitution when diseases or weather harm output
Trade allows farmers and their children to pursue other professsions when they want
Food imports are an asset, not a vulnerability
European Commission@EU_Commission
Europe must produce more and depend less on others for the nutrients that sustain our agriculture. Dependency is a vulnerability. And we're working to change it. 🔗 Full Action Plan: link.europa.eu/vNkf6w
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All administrations do this thing where they release a heavily editorialized “fact sheet” of “settled” negotiations
Don’t trust the government
Board of Trade, board of investment, Xi visit in Fall, straight of Hormuz, denuclearize N. Korea and Iran, and purchases of planes and Ag TBD
The fact to take away from Trump and Xi is that both sides feel cooperation is more important than open contention, for now
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These one-at-a-time deals might not look like much
Look up though, and the EU has constructed it’s own TPP
With it in it and with Brussels rules
Backed by legislation implementing the deals they can’t be easily waived aside
Another loss for the U.S.
Frans Köster@franskoster070
#EU #Malaysia: Malaysia ratifies PCA with EU, strengthens strategic partnership with EU on trade, security, green technology. | Malay Mail malaymail.com/news/malaysia/…
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@elonmusk Hey hey, if I learned anything in history, these could be the first colonists
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Free the political prisoners in Britain!
DogeDesigner@cb_doge
The UK has become a prison island.
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My new book (matching my nail polish) on how to structure relationships (capital-labour, public-private, civil society-state) with common good principles from the start instead of correcting afterwards is out June UK, July Netherlands/Germany, September USA/Spain, October Italy…
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@SpaceX And launches that transport people from one side of the world to another
London, Sydney, Tokyo, Bangkok
Would benefit greatly by being only 30 mins away from every major American city
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It’s no secret that we intend to launch Starship a lot, targeting thousands of flights per year. That cadence will require the ability to launch from many different locations, so we are constantly exploring to find viable sites to expand Starship operations in the future, both domestically and internationally
S.E. Robinson, Jr.@SERobinsonJr
SPACEX: A realtor named Jim Keaty of Keaty Real Estate published a rumor of possible SpaceX land acquisition in Louisiana. It states SpaceX may have acquired or is acquiring 136k acres (212 sq miles) of marshland south of Highway 82 towards the Gulf of America in Pecan Island and Freshwater City in Vermilion Parish of the Acadiana region. At the Southeast corner of the land near the Freshwater City boat launch is a plot ready to be converted for port operations and direct access to the Intercoastal Canal and the Gulf of America. Pecan Island is halfway between Boca Chica and Cape Canaveral, and has easy access to Cheniere LNG and Golden Pass LNG; both on the either side of the Louisiana and Texas border at Sabine Pass. This has not been confirmed by SpaceX of Elon. More SpaceX news in the ELON CHRON below!
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“Today, union bosses have found their new target: America’s railroads,” @GroverNorquist writes.
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It is time for the United States Postal Service to ban junk mail.
Unsolicited spam calls are already prohibited by the FCC. Emails are heavily regulated by the CAN-SPAM Act of 2003. Junk mail is the majority of mail, 100 million trees per year. Enough!
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Dc not allowing Waymo for safety reasons is insane when there's no ban on Maryland drivers
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Day One at CSFN Ottawa 2026 opened with a sharp fireside chat between Grover Norquist, President of Americans for Tax Reform, and MP John Williamson on what fiscal discipline really demands in 2026 and where the conservative movement stands around the world.
The message was clear: lower taxes, smaller government, and a serious commitment to growth are not slogans. They are the foundation of free and prosperous nations. After 10 years of Trudeau-Carney Liberal promises, Canadians have been given little reason to take this government at its word on spending, on growth, or on the size of the state.
The conservative movement is winning ideas around the world. Canada is next.
#CSFNOttawa #CanadaStrongAndFree #Ottawa2026 #CDNPoli
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It was a pleasure to be joined by experts @jdtabish and @davidclement to discuss the latest threats to digital freedom in Canada
We had a real focus on C-22 lawful access. Canada needs to get encryption right and close back doors to keep Canadian’s data safe
Canada Strong and Free Network@canstrongfree
A timely panel at CSFN Ottawa 2026 on a fight that does not get nearly enough attention: the steady creep of taxes, regulations, and government overreach into Canada's digital economy. David Clement (North American Affairs Manager, Consumer Choice Center) and Josh Tabish (Senior Director, Chamber of Progress) joined moderator Philip Thompson (Policy Analyst, Tholos Foundation) for a substantive conversation about what bad digital policy actually costs Canadians: higher prices, less choice, weaker innovation, and an open door for governments to decide what we see, say, and pay for online. @davidclement @jdtabish #CSFNOttawa #CanadaStrongAndFree #Ottawa2026
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A timely panel at CSFN Ottawa 2026 on a fight that does not get nearly enough attention: the steady creep of taxes, regulations, and government overreach into Canada's digital economy.
David Clement (North American Affairs Manager, Consumer Choice Center) and Josh Tabish (Senior Director, Chamber of Progress) joined moderator Philip Thompson (Policy Analyst, Tholos Foundation) for a substantive conversation about what bad digital policy actually costs Canadians: higher prices, less choice, weaker innovation, and an open door for governments to decide what we see, say, and pay for online.
@davidclement @jdtabish
#CSFNOttawa #CanadaStrongAndFree #Ottawa2026
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