Dmitry Grozoubinski
@explaintrade.com
Author of Why Politicians Lie About Trade | Trade and Negotiations Explainer. Forever D&D DM.
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Dmitry Grozoubinski
@explaintrade.com
· Apr 28
Why Politicians Lie About Trade: ...and What You Need to Know About It
Amazon.com: Why Politicians Lie About Trade: ...and What You Need to Know About It (Audible Audio Edition): Dmitry Grozoubinski, Christopher Tester, Canbury Press Ltd: Books
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The audiobook version of Why Politicians Lie About Trade seems to be out in the wild!
Read by the excellent Christopher Tester (www.christophertester.co.uk), it is delivered with more gravitas than I could have ever managed.
www.amazon.com/Why-Politici...
Read by the excellent Christopher Tester (www.christophertester.co.uk), it is delivered with more gravitas than I could have ever managed.
www.amazon.com/Why-Politici...
Apparently, the only thing these people are more desperate to see cut than the interest rate is the age of consent.
Megyn Kelly: "I know somebody very close to this case…Jeffrey Epstein, in this person's view, was not a pedophile…He was into the barely legal type, like he liked 15 year old girls…He wasn't into like 8 year olds…There's a difference between a 15 year old and a 5 year old."
November 13, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Apparently, the only thing these people are more desperate to see cut than the interest rate is the age of consent.
"Fuck moving forward. Screw coming together. We are going to hire a team of prosecutors so large it needs its own building, fund them so well they have their own helicopters, and instruct them to go after everyone who broke the law from the White House to individual ICE agents."
i’ve said this before and i remain convinced it’s true, the 2028 platform that would deliver obama 08 results is “i am gonna
bring the hammer down on the corrupt self-dealing politicians and their rich friends and there are no sacred cows id give a pass”
bring the hammer down on the corrupt self-dealing politicians and their rich friends and there are no sacred cows id give a pass”
November 13, 2025 at 2:16 PM
"Fuck moving forward. Screw coming together. We are going to hire a team of prosecutors so large it needs its own building, fund them so well they have their own helicopters, and instruct them to go after everyone who broke the law from the White House to individual ICE agents."
If someone said native born British white people couldn't be trusted because they "heard ancestral voices prophesying colonialisation", Hannan's head would explode.
November 13, 2025 at 1:03 PM
If someone said native born British white people couldn't be trusted because they "heard ancestral voices prophesying colonialisation", Hannan's head would explode.
We now go live to Democrats on the House Oversight Committee:
a man singing into a microphone wearing a blue jacket that says ria on it
Alt: Kendrick Lamaar staring into the camera at the Superbowl as he sings the "Hey Drake, I hear you like em young" verse of they not like us.
media.tenor.com
November 13, 2025 at 7:31 AM
We now go live to Democrats on the House Oversight Committee:
"These emails are cherry-picked."
"Ok, but you get that it's a problem that your tree has ANY cherries that are emails conspiring with a paedophilic sex trafficker?"
"Ok, but you get that it's a problem that your tree has ANY cherries that are emails conspiring with a paedophilic sex trafficker?"
November 13, 2025 at 7:16 AM
"These emails are cherry-picked."
"Ok, but you get that it's a problem that your tree has ANY cherries that are emails conspiring with a paedophilic sex trafficker?"
"Ok, but you get that it's a problem that your tree has ANY cherries that are emails conspiring with a paedophilic sex trafficker?"
This is what they put in emails.
Can you imagine what these people's Twitter DMs are like?
Can you imagine what these people's Twitter DMs are like?
November 12, 2025 at 11:25 PM
This is what they put in emails.
Can you imagine what these people's Twitter DMs are like?
Can you imagine what these people's Twitter DMs are like?
Nice try Democrats, but not even releasing a bunch of the Epstein documents is going to trick Americans into reading.
November 12, 2025 at 10:27 PM
Nice try Democrats, but not even releasing a bunch of the Epstein documents is going to trick Americans into reading.
It only took 10 months of daily @josephpolitano.bsky.social posts about how dumb these tariffs are to make the Trump administration do the most obvious thing imaginable.
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Trump Plans Move to Ease Prices on Coffee and Bananas, Bessent Says
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent indicated that the Trump administration would soon unveil reductions in import duties on coffee, bananas and other foods — taking action after voter anger over the cos...
www.bloomberg.com
November 12, 2025 at 2:52 PM
It only took 10 months of daily @josephpolitano.bsky.social posts about how dumb these tariffs are to make the Trump administration do the most obvious thing imaginable.
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
So little patience for the people perfectly content riding the tiger of white resentment and nativism while it was helping them push through tax cuts, who now stare at it running loose and feral in the streets and are like, "the left should reflect on how it let things get this far."
November 11, 2025 at 11:12 PM
So little patience for the people perfectly content riding the tiger of white resentment and nativism while it was helping them push through tax cuts, who now stare at it running loose and feral in the streets and are like, "the left should reflect on how it let things get this far."
Fascinating, thanks Scotty.
Unrelated: My book is available from all good retailers, as an e-book, and now as an audiobook.
Unrelated: My book is available from all good retailers, as an e-book, and now as an audiobook.
November 11, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Fascinating, thanks Scotty.
Unrelated: My book is available from all good retailers, as an e-book, and now as an audiobook.
Unrelated: My book is available from all good retailers, as an e-book, and now as an audiobook.
"Here's what my misreading a menu and ordering the wrong thing at a bistro in Paris tells us about the decline of the French Republic."
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November 11, 2025 at 3:40 PM
"Here's what my misreading a menu and ordering the wrong thing at a bistro in Paris tells us about the decline of the French Republic."
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Honestly believe that using 'alpha' like this is a foolproof Shibboleth for douchebaggery.
Normal human beings in finance (all three of them) do not do this.
Normal human beings in finance (all three of them) do not do this.
*maximum alpha at 1.25x speed* continuously lives on in my head, unfortunately.
November 11, 2025 at 11:10 AM
Honestly believe that using 'alpha' like this is a foolproof Shibboleth for douchebaggery.
Normal human beings in finance (all three of them) do not do this.
Normal human beings in finance (all three of them) do not do this.
The only person in my World of Warcraft guild who actually knows what he's doing is a Ukrainian dude whom Russian attacks have limited to a few hours of power a day, and who frequently has to leave abruptly due to air alerts.
Sometimes I think Putin doesn't even care about our raid progression.
Sometimes I think Putin doesn't even care about our raid progression.
November 11, 2025 at 9:16 AM
The only person in my World of Warcraft guild who actually knows what he's doing is a Ukrainian dude whom Russian attacks have limited to a few hours of power a day, and who frequently has to leave abruptly due to air alerts.
Sometimes I think Putin doesn't even care about our raid progression.
Sometimes I think Putin doesn't even care about our raid progression.
I also wish people would spell out the alternative proposal here.
"We should have kept tariffs and capital restrictions on China skyhigh in the hopes it never became a competitive industrial producer, trapping hundreds of millions in subsistance poverty and raising the cost of everything."
"We should have kept tariffs and capital restrictions on China skyhigh in the hopes it never became a competitive industrial producer, trapping hundreds of millions in subsistance poverty and raising the cost of everything."
This is also said about Europe's approach to China and I simply don't believe this is true. I was at conferences with senior US folk in the early 2010s and none thought China would become more democratic or liberal.
We thought we could compete.
We thought we could compete.
November 10, 2025 at 9:53 PM
I also wish people would spell out the alternative proposal here.
"We should have kept tariffs and capital restrictions on China skyhigh in the hopes it never became a competitive industrial producer, trapping hundreds of millions in subsistance poverty and raising the cost of everything."
"We should have kept tariffs and capital restrictions on China skyhigh in the hopes it never became a competitive industrial producer, trapping hundreds of millions in subsistance poverty and raising the cost of everything."
We now go live to Isaac Chotiner as he reaches out to Elon Musk offering an interview to clear up this whole Joyce Carol Oates "doesn't read" thing.
three penguins peeking out of a hole with the words " come on take the bait "
Alt: Three penguins peeking out of a hole with the words "Come on, take the bait "
media.tenor.com
November 10, 2025 at 9:39 PM
We now go live to Isaac Chotiner as he reaches out to Elon Musk offering an interview to clear up this whole Joyce Carol Oates "doesn't read" thing.
1/ Unique typing style aside, the President raises an interesting question here:
Why do some like me think Congress and the Founders are comfortable with him banning or licensing an import during an economic emergency, but not applying a tariff on it?
Let's talk about it.
Why do some like me think Congress and the Founders are comfortable with him banning or licensing an import during an economic emergency, but not applying a tariff on it?
Let's talk about it.
November 9, 2025 at 4:52 PM
1/ Unique typing style aside, the President raises an interesting question here:
Why do some like me think Congress and the Founders are comfortable with him banning or licensing an import during an economic emergency, but not applying a tariff on it?
Let's talk about it.
Why do some like me think Congress and the Founders are comfortable with him banning or licensing an import during an economic emergency, but not applying a tariff on it?
Let's talk about it.
I grew up not watching sports and so lack a cognitive framework to explain why seeing Faker lifting another World's trophy has measurably improved my mental health today.
November 9, 2025 at 12:55 PM
I grew up not watching sports and so lack a cognitive framework to explain why seeing Faker lifting another World's trophy has measurably improved my mental health today.
Musk: "Mandani is a charismatic swindler."
Rogan, pulling off his mask to reveal @ichotiner.bsky.social: "What else has he done that makes him a swindler?"
Musk:
Rogan, pulling off his mask to reveal @ichotiner.bsky.social: "What else has he done that makes him a swindler?"
Musk:
November 8, 2025 at 11:46 AM
Musk: "Mandani is a charismatic swindler."
Rogan, pulling off his mask to reveal @ichotiner.bsky.social: "What else has he done that makes him a swindler?"
Musk:
Rogan, pulling off his mask to reveal @ichotiner.bsky.social: "What else has he done that makes him a swindler?"
Musk:
Performing desirable behaviour and "virtue signalling" is also absolutely core to human society.
It's why we tell kids that stealing is wrong, rather than just that it's illegal and punishable by law.
Living in a place where people only treat each other well when forced to by rules would be AWFUL.
It's why we tell kids that stealing is wrong, rather than just that it's illegal and punishable by law.
Living in a place where people only treat each other well when forced to by rules would be AWFUL.
Performative decency is actually *so* important for this reason.
It tricks the 10% of ghouls into thinking that there are only 1% of ghouls.
And it makes the 30% of people that don't care one way or another follow the mostly decent crowd
It tricks the 10% of ghouls into thinking that there are only 1% of ghouls.
And it makes the 30% of people that don't care one way or another follow the mostly decent crowd
November 8, 2025 at 10:32 AM
Performing desirable behaviour and "virtue signalling" is also absolutely core to human society.
It's why we tell kids that stealing is wrong, rather than just that it's illegal and punishable by law.
Living in a place where people only treat each other well when forced to by rules would be AWFUL.
It's why we tell kids that stealing is wrong, rather than just that it's illegal and punishable by law.
Living in a place where people only treat each other well when forced to by rules would be AWFUL.
Well yes, if you allow Fox News and Ezra Douthglesias (h/t @mcopelov.bsky.social) to define a 2% tax increase on the upper band as Maoist extrimism so left wing it's on the next plane, then you can indeed pretend that a platform that would have made Reagan blush is actually moderate progressivism.
Name the ‘moderate position’ on literally any issue. Quickly.
November 8, 2025 at 10:26 AM
Well yes, if you allow Fox News and Ezra Douthglesias (h/t @mcopelov.bsky.social) to define a 2% tax increase on the upper band as Maoist extrimism so left wing it's on the next plane, then you can indeed pretend that a platform that would have made Reagan blush is actually moderate progressivism.
"Seizing Brexit opportunities to deregulate."
November 8, 2025 at 9:16 AM
"Seizing Brexit opportunities to deregulate."
*Anakin and Padme meme*
TRUMP: WE AGREE THAT WAR IN UKRAINE WILL END IN NOT TOO DISTANT FUTURE
November 7, 2025 at 6:12 PM
*Anakin and Padme meme*
If you're surprised businesses passed a new cost onto consumers, don't worry you're one of the smart ones.
In fact, you're so smart you may have been targeted by criminals who tamper with the wallets of geniuses.
Quick, send me your wallet so I can inspect it for damage.
In fact, you're so smart you may have been targeted by criminals who tamper with the wallets of geniuses.
Quick, send me your wallet so I can inspect it for damage.
70.5% OF NEW TARIFFS WERE PASSED ONTO CONSUMERS — PER LENDINGTREE LENDINGTREE DATA SHOW THAT OVER TWO-THIRDS OF NEW TARIFF COSTS WERE DIRECTLY BORNE BY CONSUMERS, HIGHLIGHTING HOW TRADE BARRIERS ARE DRIVING UP RETAIL PRICES AND ADDING TO INFLATIONARY PRESSURES.
November 7, 2025 at 3:47 PM
If you're surprised businesses passed a new cost onto consumers, don't worry you're one of the smart ones.
In fact, you're so smart you may have been targeted by criminals who tamper with the wallets of geniuses.
Quick, send me your wallet so I can inspect it for damage.
In fact, you're so smart you may have been targeted by criminals who tamper with the wallets of geniuses.
Quick, send me your wallet so I can inspect it for damage.
The media, who give every Nazi that puts on a suit and speaks in complete sentences without the n word a glamorous cover story profile: "Why would the left do this?"
November 6, 2025 at 12:21 PM
The media, who give every Nazi that puts on a suit and speaks in complete sentences without the n word a glamorous cover story profile: "Why would the left do this?"
I would also add that the idea you have to be on there to have an accurate gauge of the zeitgeist no longer applies, if it ever did.
The vibe on Bluesky was far more representative of the blue wave on Tuesday than X was - which doesn't mean Bluesky is universally predictive but does say X isn't.
The vibe on Bluesky was far more representative of the blue wave on Tuesday than X was - which doesn't mean Bluesky is universally predictive but does say X isn't.
X is designed to radicalise people.
The algorithm promotes Elon Musk's agenda to promote racists and people who want violence bought - specifically - to the streets of Britain.
Members of Parliament, major institutions and the media should not be there.
news.sky.com/story/the-x-...
The algorithm promotes Elon Musk's agenda to promote racists and people who want violence bought - specifically - to the streets of Britain.
Members of Parliament, major institutions and the media should not be there.
news.sky.com/story/the-x-...
Elon Musk is boosting the British right - and this shows how
Elon Musk is boosting the British right - and this shows how
news.sky.com
November 6, 2025 at 11:01 AM
I would also add that the idea you have to be on there to have an accurate gauge of the zeitgeist no longer applies, if it ever did.
The vibe on Bluesky was far more representative of the blue wave on Tuesday than X was - which doesn't mean Bluesky is universally predictive but does say X isn't.
The vibe on Bluesky was far more representative of the blue wave on Tuesday than X was - which doesn't mean Bluesky is universally predictive but does say X isn't.