March 21, 2019 – BAF3M – Mr.Scorcia

Winter’s End Festival – (some may call it a Unit Test)

America and China reach a “phase one” trade deal
Details are scanty, but new American tariffs due this weekend are cancelled
Why are people attracted to 50:50 probabilities?
A working paper suggests that ambiguous odds are often interpreted as even
A Nordic pioneer of negative interest rates gets cold feet
Sweden’s central bank has come under fire for weakening the krona
Central bankers debate tackling climate change
Christine Lagarde thinks it is mission-critical. Others think it is mission creep
Why it is hard for foreign investors to be bullish on South Africa
Mandela’s memory still evokes respect. But managing money involves a cold-eyed calculus
The revised USMCA pleases both Democrats and Donald Trump
On this trade deal, their interests are aligned
Trade war? China’s exporters have expanded their global market share
As America raises its walls, Chinese companies find new terrain
Are anti-competitive firms killing American innovation?
Thomas Philippon’s “The Great Reversal” spies in tech giants a risk to economic dynamism
America wants the World Bank to stop making loans to China
It left deep poverty behind long ago. But the loans make the bank a tidy profit
Why the revised USMCA pleases both Democrats and Donald Trump
On this trade deal, their interests are aligned