Matthew Yglesias

1 week ago | thebrunswicknews.com | Matthew Yglesias

Despite the various frictions, America's technology sector did pretty well during Joe Biden's presidency - and despite the various warnings about his mercurial opponent, many tech executives supported Donald Trump in his 2024 campaign. After his victory, even more rushed to Trump's side, with Meta founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg going on Joe Rogan's podcast to talk about his admiration for the president-elect and the need for more "masculine energy" in U.S. corporate culture.

1 week ago | slowboring.com | Matthew Yglesias

I did not sell any shares of stock when Donald Trump won the presidential election. I also didn’t dive into the market, full of enthusiasm for his promised new golden age of American prosperity. But I didn’t panic sell. I was aware of Trump’s extremely dubious ideas about trade policy and thought it was definitely possible that he would implement them.

1 week ago | sacbee.com | Matthew Yglesias

Despite the various frictions, America's technology sector did pretty well during Joe Biden's presidency - and despite the various warnings about his mercurial opponent, many tech executives supported Donald Trump in his 2024 campaign. After his victory, even more rushed to Trump's side, with Meta founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg going on Joe Rogan's podcast to talk about his admiration for the president-elect and the need for more "masculine energy" in U.S. corporate culture.

1 week ago | slowboring.com | Matthew Yglesias

Donald Trump stepped back from the brink of his Liberation Day tariff insanity. But even in rolled-back form, he’s still pushing taxes on imports up to the highest levels in American history. In fact, I think the sheer insanity of the “reciprocal tariffs” has obscured exactly how radical the policy Trump landed on — ten percent across the board tariffs, plus higher tariffs on Canada and Mexico, plus gargantuan tariffs of over 100 percent on China — actually is.

1 week ago | slowboring.com | Matthew Yglesias

We had planned on running the post below for paid subscribers later in the week, with a trade deficit explainer today. But without overstating our knowledge of the specific motives or facts in play in the Passover arson attack on Governor Josh Shapiro’s house, this morning felt like the right time to send it to everyone. The Trump administration’s trade policies will still be chaotic and misinformed tomorrow, and probably forever.