Playing with
Economic Matches by Ashoka Mody
https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/trump-economic-growth-disruption-by-ashoka-mody-2017-01
The Trump Trade
Gives Way to the Reckless Trade
Gideon Rachman of FT notes:
“Britain could
defend free-trade far more effectively with the EU’s bulk behind it — and could
also start to explore the possibilities for more EU defence co-operation. As it
is, Britain has been thrown into the arms of an American president that the
UK’s foreign secretary has called a madman.
In the declining
years of the British empire, some of its politicians flattered themselves that
they could be “Greeks to their Romans” — providing wise and experienced counsel
to the new American imperium.
But the Emperor
Nero has now taken power in Washington — and the British are having to smile
and clap as he sets fires and reaches for his fiddle.”