What Samuel Hammond thinks about China
Senior economist at the Foundation for American Innovation; writes Second Best, and was the Niskanen Center's director of social policy before that.
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3 dated positions, 2025, in their own words. Our reading of what Samuel Hammond has said — not written or endorsed by them.
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Their wordsthe UAE's tech aspirations are clearly downstream of a deeper affinity with the West.
- 8 months earlier
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Our readingThe US-China trade imbalance is driven mainly by capital flows, not tariffs or trade deficits.
Their wordsTariffs and trade deficits are a distraction from the deeper source of the US-China current account imbalance, namely capital flows.
↗Oren Cass’s Labor Theory of Valuesecondbest.ca 1st of 3 in this piece
- 3 weeks earlier
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Their wordsPersistent U.S. trade deficits are an epiphenomenal mirror to our persistent capital account surpluses, which are in turn downstream of the beggar-thy-neighbor industrial policies of countries like China and Germany.
↗The Strategy Behind the Stupiditysecondbest.ca 1st of 2 in this piece