Simon Nixon
@Simon_Nixon
Independent journalist, publisher of Wealth of Nations newsletter. Previously chief Europe commentator @WSJ, chief leader writer @thetimes
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The EU-US trade deal just got messier: the White House has published a fact-sheet about the agreement with claims that directly contradict the European Commission's version of events. Let's take a closer look. whitehouse.gov/fact-sheets/20…
What? Have you been to Europe lately? Our life expectancy is 5 years longer than the US. Per capita income is higher than the US for roughly 80% of the population - created by 20% fewer working hours. Our hospitals are free. Go figure ….
It's incredible how Europeans still don't understand how much they have destroyed their economy by funding illegals, increasing crime rate & killing startups. They are still fixated on orange man bad narrative & what more they can compromise to stop Trump.
🔴Paying to Play: Europe’s Costly Concessions in Trump’s New Trade War The US-EU trade deal is a “hopelessly one-sided” agreement, which will ultimately harm the economy on both sides of the Atlantic, argues @Simon_Nixon bylinetimes.com/2025/07/28/pay…
Rest in Peace to the great Tom Lehrer, who helped put the periodic table of elements to song! 🎶
Europe's Surrender - my latest nixons.substack.com/p/europes-surr…
Europe's Surrender - my latest on the spectacularly one-sided EU-US trade deal (link below)
🚨HOLY SH*T: The foreign press just HUMILIATED Trump. Reporter: “Was part of the rush to get this deal done to knock the Jeffrey Epstein story out?” Trump: “You gotta be kidding me.” Someone buy this reporter a beer. 🍺🔥
Trade deal between the EU and US: Chief Economist of @AXAGroup, @GillesMoec, reckons that European GDP could be half a percentage point lower. With the hit to the US GDP even greater, at 0.7 percentage points, via @Simon_Nixon open.substack.com/pub/nixons/p/e…
The best response to US tariffs would be for the @europeanunion to eliminate its own internal barriers to trade, which the @IMFinEurope calculates to be the equivalent of a 46% tariff on goods and a 110% tariff on services, says @Simon_Nixon open.substack.com/pub/nixons/p/e…
Europe's Surrender - my latest on the spectacularly one-sided EU-US trade deal open.substack.com/pub/nixons/p/e…
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