The penultimate piece in my series on supranational federalism for the Streit Council is out. There’s no paywall. You can read it here:
https://www.streitcouncil.org/post/why-federalism-on-the-role-of-china
Why Federalism: On the Role of China
Tag: Trade
The US-Canada Trade War
President Trump has announced new tariffs:
- 25% on all Canadian imports, closing the loophole on imports valued at less than $800, with a lower 10% rate for energy, i.e., oil & gas
- 25% on all Mexican imports
- 10% on all Chinese imports, on top of the targeted tariffs Trump introduced in his first term (and which President Biden first retained and then expanded)
These tariffs are much larger than the tariffs Trump imposed during his first term. Those tariffs were targeted – they affected specific industries Trump was hoping to reshore. This is a broad-spectrum approach. It’s a strategy you use to force another state to make concessions in other policy areas. What is Trump trying to do? And will he succeed?
Why Federalism: Creating the Cataracts
I’ve written the second in a series of six posts that will be coming out with the Streit Council, on the problem of economic integration without political union. There’s no paywall. You can read it here:
https://www.streitcouncil.org/post/why-federalism-creating-the-cataracts
Why Federalism: The Problem that Needs to be Solved
I’ve written the first in a series of six posts that will be coming out with the Streit Council, on the problem of economic integration without political integration. There’s no paywall. You can read it here:
https://www.streitcouncil.org/post/why-federalism-the-problem-that-needs-to-be-solved
What I Think in 2020
Now that the Bernie Sanders movement is comprehensively failing, it is time for those of us who supported it to take a step back and reflect. We can only learn from defeat if we are willing to be honest with ourselves and recognise it as such. This post is more autobiographical than most of what I run here. The aim is to do some hard introspection about how I came to support the Sanders movement and where its downfall leaves me, politically.
Benjamin Studebaker 