Dmitry Grozoubinski
@explaintrade.com
Author of Why Politicians Lie About Trade | Trade and Negotiations Explainer. Forever D&D DM.
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🇺🇦 Born. 🇦🇺 Raised. 🇨🇭 Based.
Media and training: explaintrade.com
Consultancy network: auroramacro.com
Speaking representation: cwgspeakers.com
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.
Correct.
(He made this).
(He made this).
November 11, 2025 at 10:27 AM
Correct.
(He made this).
(He made this).
A trade deficit specifically with one country, or overall?
That's possible, but again then why not ban certain imports or introduce fixed instead of gradually jacking up their price at the border and hoping it all works itself out?
US Balance of Trade Chart is below, for reference.
That's possible, but again then why not ban certain imports or introduce fixed instead of gradually jacking up their price at the border and hoping it all works itself out?
US Balance of Trade Chart is below, for reference.
November 9, 2025 at 5:06 PM
A trade deficit specifically with one country, or overall?
That's possible, but again then why not ban certain imports or introduce fixed instead of gradually jacking up their price at the border and hoping it all works itself out?
US Balance of Trade Chart is below, for reference.
That's possible, but again then why not ban certain imports or introduce fixed instead of gradually jacking up their price at the border and hoping it all works itself out?
US Balance of Trade Chart is below, for reference.
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 wish my field were a bigger part of the national conversation!"
November 3, 2025 at 10:19 PM
"I wish my field were a bigger part of the national conversation!"
The "hard-men" of Gondor were getting their shit kicked in until they were rescued by foreigners and a girl.
The Shire was doing fine until they let a fascist demagogue ("Sharkey" aka Saruman) take over, close the gates, impose a bunch of thug-enforced rules, and despoil nature for profit.
The Shire was doing fine until they let a fascist demagogue ("Sharkey" aka Saruman) take over, close the gates, impose a bunch of thug-enforced rules, and despoil nature for profit.
October 29, 2025 at 10:36 AM
The "hard-men" of Gondor were getting their shit kicked in until they were rescued by foreigners and a girl.
The Shire was doing fine until they let a fascist demagogue ("Sharkey" aka Saruman) take over, close the gates, impose a bunch of thug-enforced rules, and despoil nature for profit.
The Shire was doing fine until they let a fascist demagogue ("Sharkey" aka Saruman) take over, close the gates, impose a bunch of thug-enforced rules, and despoil nature for profit.
This does not appear to be a real problem.
October 24, 2025 at 7:16 AM
This does not appear to be a real problem.
Being conservative is believing George Soros can buy millions of Americans marching on a weekend when Elon Musk couldn't buy a handjob on his own private jet.
October 18, 2025 at 11:23 PM
Being conservative is believing George Soros can buy millions of Americans marching on a weekend when Elon Musk couldn't buy a handjob on his own private jet.
"What are you dressing up as for Halloween?"
"No idea. I'm completely stumped."
"No idea. I'm completely stumped."
October 15, 2025 at 9:51 AM
"What are you dressing up as for Halloween?"
"No idea. I'm completely stumped."
"No idea. I'm completely stumped."
This is an exact encapsulation of why I moved to Bluesky.
No amount of handwringing in the Atlantic about how I owe some eternal Promethean suffering to the discourse is going to make me stay on a site I hate, that stopped doing anything for me professionally years ago.
No amount of handwringing in the Atlantic about how I owe some eternal Promethean suffering to the discourse is going to make me stay on a site I hate, that stopped doing anything for me professionally years ago.
October 12, 2025 at 9:02 AM
This is an exact encapsulation of why I moved to Bluesky.
No amount of handwringing in the Atlantic about how I owe some eternal Promethean suffering to the discourse is going to make me stay on a site I hate, that stopped doing anything for me professionally years ago.
No amount of handwringing in the Atlantic about how I owe some eternal Promethean suffering to the discourse is going to make me stay on a site I hate, that stopped doing anything for me professionally years ago.
How does he keep getting these exclusives?!?
October 7, 2025 at 12:12 PM
How does he keep getting these exclusives?!?
Some images are simply burned onto the pages of history.
October 5, 2025 at 9:05 PM
Some images are simply burned onto the pages of history.
I mean, honestly.
October 4, 2025 at 10:58 AM
I mean, honestly.
Swiss mountain lakes are just sarcastically beautiful.
October 4, 2025 at 10:19 AM
Swiss mountain lakes are just sarcastically beautiful.
"Come quick, he's using a pillow like he's people!!!" is an objectively stupid thing to say and yet we say it every single time and come running every single time.
October 2, 2025 at 1:31 PM
"Come quick, he's using a pillow like he's people!!!" is an objectively stupid thing to say and yet we say it every single time and come running every single time.
I'm not saying this meme sums up all the problems of modernity, but it comes really close.
October 2, 2025 at 8:52 AM
I'm not saying this meme sums up all the problems of modernity, but it comes really close.
"Look at how hard we're taxing Americans!"
September 30, 2025 at 9:35 PM
"Look at how hard we're taxing Americans!"
This is like the Dungeons and Dragons Satanic Panic of the 80's except somehow targeted at an even bigger bunch of nerds.
September 27, 2025 at 5:39 PM
This is like the Dungeons and Dragons Satanic Panic of the 80's except somehow targeted at an even bigger bunch of nerds.
How your email finds me.
September 20, 2025 at 9:13 AM
How your email finds me.
MAGA have found this neat Gamergate cheatcode whereby you unleash your lunatic internet army to make death threats against staff of the corporation you're trying to bully, thereby allowing its leadership to neatly sidestep the moral implications of caving by claiming it's a staff safety decision.
September 19, 2025 at 4:33 PM
MAGA have found this neat Gamergate cheatcode whereby you unleash your lunatic internet army to make death threats against staff of the corporation you're trying to bully, thereby allowing its leadership to neatly sidestep the moral implications of caving by claiming it's a staff safety decision.
Find a man who looks at you the way I look at a plate of tiny baked goods.
September 16, 2025 at 8:20 AM
Find a man who looks at you the way I look at a plate of tiny baked goods.
To ensure this never happens again, Starmer should once again ignore the foreign service Mandarins and to go with his gut.
Welcome, Ambassador.
Welcome, Ambassador.
September 11, 2025 at 10:01 AM
To ensure this never happens again, Starmer should once again ignore the foreign service Mandarins and to go with his gut.
Welcome, Ambassador.
Welcome, Ambassador.
I wish we'd spent 2022-24 living under the Biden foreign policy regime that exists exclusively in Republican talking points.
September 8, 2025 at 10:37 AM
I wish we'd spent 2022-24 living under the Biden foreign policy regime that exists exclusively in Republican talking points.