Eduardo Porter

Canada Set to Side With China On EVs - The Wire China Canada is considering dropping 100 percent tariffs on imports of EVs from China, in a potentially major break with the U.S. approach.

Canadian retaliation? Trump won't like it if Ottawa removes the 100% tariff on Chinese EVs. www.thewirechina.com/2025/10/26/c...

Once the AI bubble pops, we’ll all suffer. Could that be better than letting it grow unabated? The world will be pushed into a recession, but perhaps we can build something more promising from the pieces

Take your pick: If the AI bubble bursts we will suffer. If AI is not a bubble and doesn't burst, we will suffer. My latest for @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Americans’ pessimism about the economy cuts across political lines Inflation and a worsening job market are top of mind for many Americans, even among the president’s Maga base

Donald Trump is not Making America Feel Great Again. His base is starting to feel very crummy. My latest for The Guardian: www.theguardian.com/business/202...

History shows war against immigrants will backfire on all Americans Deportations are likely to cause employers to let go of US workers, and reduce the labor force

Trump's crackdown on immigrants will backfire. History tells us how. My latest for The Guardian www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Trump looks to Nixon’s playbook - good for him, bad for the economy? History suggests that bullying the Fed for political gain can have serious consequences for the rest of us

My first column for The Guardian: On Trump's attempt to take over the Fed. He's taking a page out of Nixon's playbook: www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Going back to the 1970s won’t save Mexico Embracing protectionism to prevent Chinese dumping and appease Trump will fail — just like import substitution did

My first column for the FT: Trump pushes Mexico back to the future: www.ft.com/content/2f9d...

"China is turning the ‘emerging market energy leapfrog’ from concept to reality."

50% of China's 242 GW of solar exports went to emerging nations in 2024!

~63% of emerging economies had higher solar share than US in 2023.

~25% had higher economy-wide electrification than US in 2023.
#energysky

Big finding:the claim that moving families to better neighborhoods improves children’s prospects is wrong.

The Trumpist majority on SCOTUS, like Trump himself, is spending down a trust fund they did not create, apparently believing it refills automatically. But it doesn’t. The whole system depends on other key institutions treating their rulings as legitimate.

A screenshot of page 28 of a legal document discussing the difficulty lower courts face when interpreting unclear or rapidly evolving guidance from the Supreme Court. The following phrases and sentences are highlighted in yellow: * "That said, the Supreme Court’s recent emergency docket rulings regarding grant terminations have not been models of clarity, and have left many issues unresolved." * "California was a four-paragraph per curiam decision issued in the context of a stay application." * "The outcome, which no party had requested, was, thus, inconsistent with the views of eight justices" * "the issues are complex and evolving." * "this Court, not the district courts or courts of appeals, will often still be the ultimate decisionmaker as to the interim legal status of major new federal statutes and executive actions." * "...it is unhelpful and unnecessary to criticize district courts for “defy[ing]” the Supreme Court when they are working to find the right answer in a rapidly evolving doctrinal landscape, where they must grapple with both existing precedent and interim guidance from the Supreme Court that appears to set that precedent aside without much explanation or consensus."

It seems like federal district courts are in full revolt against SCOTUS. I've never seen such direct scathing criticism of SCOTUS like this from the bench over their shadow docket rulings quietly overturning precedent without explanation.

From the Harvard decision today.

After she caved and voted to confirm Hegseth, RFK, Gabbard, Bondi, the lot of them.

There’s a sucker born every minute… and some of them come highly credentialed.

LA Ports: Imports Up, Exports Down in July Container traffic gives us an idea about the volume of goods being exported and imported - and usually some hints about the trade report si...

LA Ports: Imports Up, Exports Down in July www.calculatedriskblog.com/2025/08/la-p...

This is the 8th consecutive month with exports down YoY.

Seems problematic.

It’s wild that the most unrealistic part of Terminator 2 is now the idea of a tech founder being told their creation will enslave humanity and they decide to destroy their product & company.

Opinion | Brazil sidelined Bolsonaro. What can America do about Trump? Brazil’s unique institutions helped it weather an authoritarian challenge to its democracy. But the U.S. has other resources to bolster its resilience.

Time to re-up this: Trump wants to punish Brazil because Brazil did a better job than the U.S. to protect its democracy. wapo.st/3U5JMXB

Yes, this IS absolute madness.

Opinion | Columbia’s Administrators Are Fooling Themselves

"this deal is unlikely to end the attacks. The federal government, and this administration, is simply too powerful and too arbitrary to be credibly bargained with."

www.nytimes.com/2025/07/23/o...

With Japan in the 1980s and China today, we keep overreacting — and paying the price, @eduardoelreportero.bsky.social writes. wapo.st/4nRC69f

Opinion | America’s misguided trade panic long predates Trump With Japan in the 1980s and China today, we keep overreacting — and paying the price.

The rise of China does bring about important new challenges for American policy, @eduardoelreportero.bsky.social writes.

"But the popular interpretation of the China shock is guiding the United States down a self-defeating path." wapo.st/4nRC69f

Opinion | America’s misguided trade panic long predates Trump With Japan in the 1980s and China today, we keep overreacting — and paying the price.

Remember the 1980s, when the big threat came from Japan? Americans have frowned on trade ever since. My column today: wapo.st/4lJ83iA

I just left the Everglades Immigrant Interment Camp. No, I’m not using their ridiculous name. It was a very tough to witness humans in those cages. Every Floridian should be ashamed that our taxpayer money is being used for this.

Opinion | The GOP scores a win in its long war on government health care Why did the attacks finally succeed this time, when they failed so many times before?

Back in 2017, when Trump failed to dismantle Obamacare, it looked like Americans would finally get what citizens of every other affluent nation have: universal healthcare coverage. But no, the GOP finally succeeded in tearing the promise down. wapo.st/46C37XP

Opinion | The high costs of Trump’s ‘peace through strength’ Is military dominance really the key to global security?

The United States’ massive military capabilities have proven unable to ensure peace or stability. So what’s the case for massive NATO rearmament? wapo.st/3I9xNpe

Opinion | The profound hypocrisy underlying America’s immigration policy Behind the raids and rhetoric, Trump protects the immigrant workforce he vilifies.

Trump might convince his MAGA base that he is WINNING! his war against immigrants. But he is a businessman above all — one who has been known to illegally employ immigrant workers. He has no interest in getting them out of the workforce. His immigration raids are a performance. wapo.st/3G4AesC

Opinion | The retreat from aid is a costly mistake Foreign aid was helping the world’s poorest escape misery.

The Trump administration calls this waste & fraud. But foreign aid has contributed to major successes in alleviating misery around the world. This is what we stand to lose 👇 wapo.st/4naGi3u

Opinion | Why solving the baby bust is so difficult No motherhood medal or baby bonus will fix what economic modernization (and closed borders) broke.

📉 Birth rates are falling yet governments aren't listening to what people need in order to create the families they want.

Let the @washingtonpost.com ‬explain some of the reasons why fewer people are having children: unf.pa/bbp

✍ @eduardoelreportero.bsky.social

#TheRealFertilityCrisis

Who is Trump governing for? His econ platform (BBB+Tariffs) would cut the income of the poorest households by over 6 percent. All but the top 20 percent of households lose out. Turns out MAGA refers to a pretty narrow slice of America

So end the Trump administration’s workplace raids. Like all workplace raids before.

Opinion | Why solving the baby bust is so difficult No motherhood medal or baby bonus will fix what economic modernization (and closed borders) broke.

If Trump wants America to have more babies, he could start by embracing immigrant families. wapo.st/43RERxV