Archive - The Power and the Money

Emergency substack 2: The Ontario electricity export tax won’t hurt Americans

Market structures mean that the burden would fall on Ontario

Mar 12 •

Emergency substack: The Mexico-Canada tariffs are still on!

We have never been free-trading

Mar 8 •

How big is China’s manufacturing sector?

Almost certainly equal to the industrial nations formerly known as “advanced”

Mar 4 •

But how it happens matters a lot

Mar 2 •

February 2025

January 2025

In theory, Trump’s neo-Monroe policy won’t benefit China

This very boring title is another way of saying, “I think Dan Drezner did not spend enough time thinking about the implications of Dan Drezner’s work”

Jan 28 •

Invading Panama, a historical guide

The country came pre-invaded the last time around

Jan 25 •

Buying Greenland, a practical guide

Politics, politics, politics

Jan 19 •

Seriously, China is failing to take over the Panama Canal!!

Oh Atlantic Council, I thought more highly of you

Jan 17 •

The price of Greenland

Whatever the Greenlanders will accept

Jan 14 •

Crime in Uruguay is more like New York than El Salvador

But “better than New York in 1980” is not exactly a vote of confidence

Jan 6 •

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