Kate Andrews
@KateAndrs
US Deputy Editor, @TheSpectator
Tariffs are taxes, and the trade deals negotiated so far place them all on American businesses.
In the two trade agreements confirmed today, the President has negotiated it so companies based in Indonesia and the Philippines pay nothing to import American goods (great for Indonesian and Filipino consumers!) and US companies pay a 19% tax to import their goods.
@MarcWarner10 says we could be on the cusp of developing an alien intelligence @default_friend writes about the ceaseless video/noise in all our minds Paul Wood investigates the burgeoning field of ‘AI welfare’ & machine rights @BridgetPhetasy on The Sloppening
It's going down. Meet me after school tomorrow.
It's going to be really funny if Trump actually manages to eject Powell, gets someone much more pliant in, and then the first month after they're confirmed the FOMC votes against a rate cut by eleven to one.
The main point of the issue? As machines overtake our ability to think, it is imperative that we become MORE human not less. The key is to READ and THINK for ourselves. You can subscribe here to do just that: thespectator.com/subscribe/
PLUS @AdamFriedland writes the diary @bdomenech has the inside story on Texas eating Hollywood @KeenanPeachy calls for regime change in the Golden State Chris Mondics documents how the Protestant Woke Ethic is destroying mainline Christianity There’s much more, too …
Michael Lind examines how governments can regulate AI Christopher Caldwell says humans must keep thinking in an age of intelligent machines Plus @thomasknox says fiction can’t compete with the 2020s
We’ve just sent our August @TheSpectator off to press. It’s an AI special — jam-packed with terrifyingly brilliant stuff 👇
I’m beginning to suspect that markets work.
Milei update:
"Trump is risking something more – the diminishment of his political superpower, which is that no one knows what he’ll do at any given time." From @KateAndrs trib.al/tUGtKWl
Is it time to scrap the triple lock? @Simmons__ and @KateAndrs on Spectator TV 👇 spectator.co.uk/article/britai…
🤓Possibly my favourite ever @OBR_UK chart👇 The green line is what the Government tells us is going to happen to the national debt at each Budget (up a bit then down). The yellow line is what actually happens (up, up, up)
How does Trump have a record of both winning big (shocking upset 2016, storms it 2024) and losing big (2020, midterm candidates)? Tweets like this explain at least some of it, I think. Not the tweet itself, but the sentiment. Trump taps into issues plenty of Americans care…
Milei update:
Mamdani is promising free buses and free childcare, government-run grocery stores and rent freezes. ✍️ Kate Andrews buff.ly/1VJKJSm
Never mind that Mamdani’s solution to freeze rents will worsen New York's housing crisis, by reducing the number of properties on the market. The hope and promise of a subsidised tomorrow secured his nomination today. spectator.co.uk/article/meet-z…
