Recent Posts

What’s good about Keystone

  Keystone XL is back — along with the usual misconceptions about its virtues and dangers. There should be no doubt, however, that President Donald Trump’s executive order advancing the project is a good thing. The reason is simple: By carrying heavy crude from the oil sands of Alberta, Canada, to refineries on the US Gulf Coast and beyond, Keystone ...

Read More »

Trump-Turnbull worst phone call

  US President Donald trump did it again. He seems to be intent on going against every deal that Obama administration struck with nations around the world. Trump blasted a refugee resettlement deal with Australia reached last year with the Obama administration. The resettlement deal was heralded as the solution, and held up by the Turnbull government as an example ...

Read More »

How Trump’s trade agenda will affect the dollar

  Foreign-exchange markets are trying to determine what an era of tariffs and border taxes would mean for the value of the dollar. In textbook models, a border-adjustment tax could trigger an increase in the value of the real effective exchange rate (a measure of a country’s competitiveness once the nominal exchange rate — the currency traded on the spot ...

Read More »
Send this to a friend