George Magnus
@george17.bsky.social
China watcher, ex Chief Economist UBS, now at China Centre, Oxford and at SOAS, London. Rock&Indie music lover. Also golden retriever owner and fan.
Pasi… you’ve ‘Samson-ed’ the dog!!
July 8, 2025 at 10:24 AM
Pasi… you’ve ‘Samson-ed’ the dog!!
Fair to exempt B’ham with its 14.4% unemployment rate, which is close to 3x Nat avg. but out of work claims are up to 5 x as much. And other cites are also anomalies. There are sine unexplained variables here
May 22, 2025 at 8:21 AM
Fair to exempt B’ham with its 14.4% unemployment rate, which is close to 3x Nat avg. but out of work claims are up to 5 x as much. And other cites are also anomalies. There are sine unexplained variables here
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May 5, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Scribble a note into my website email contact and I’ll get in touch
Naturally, one can despair about Trump’s America, but the idea that Xi’s Leninist China is the mirror image and is therefore bound to ‘win’ whatever that means,is well, lazy. China has strengths, o/c, but also a slew of difficult probs that its leaders prob can’t address 2/2
April 25, 2025 at 6:56 AM
Naturally, one can despair about Trump’s America, but the idea that Xi’s Leninist China is the mirror image and is therefore bound to ‘win’ whatever that means,is well, lazy. China has strengths, o/c, but also a slew of difficult probs that its leaders prob can’t address 2/2
The man is a serious liability
April 14, 2025 at 9:02 PM
The man is a serious liability
Balance of advantage normally is with customer/ deficit state not the supplier/surplus country, esp if China's scaled p/low cost exports persist in being resisted in Europe and elsewhere. For the rest of us, rock and a hard place. Trump's tariffs or China undermining local mfg and jobs. 4/4
April 7, 2025 at 1:17 PM
Balance of advantage normally is with customer/ deficit state not the supplier/surplus country, esp if China's scaled p/low cost exports persist in being resisted in Europe and elsewhere. For the rest of us, rock and a hard place. Trump's tariffs or China undermining local mfg and jobs. 4/4
China will get to that point too because Xi doesn't want a full throated trade war with his economy in the pan, and Trump doesn't either for fear he ends up in same pan. Interesting to speculate who will cave/blink? Obv, both sides can still hurt one another, tariffs aside, 3/4
April 7, 2025 at 1:17 PM
China will get to that point too because Xi doesn't want a full throated trade war with his economy in the pan, and Trump doesn't either for fear he ends up in same pan. Interesting to speculate who will cave/blink? Obv, both sides can still hurt one another, tariffs aside, 3/4