Stephen Jacobi

Great advocacy from my (honorary) colleague Lucy Cassells at the Helen Clark Foundation

“Australia’s superannuation funds will increase investments in the United States to $1.44 trillion by 2035—an increase of almost $1 trillion from current levels.
This unprecedented investment will create tens of thousands of new, high-paying jobs for Americans.”

Thanks for this. Jim will be long remembered as a leader and for those fortunate enough to have worked closely with him as a man of principle, a wise mentor and a good friend.

“Budget 2024 maintained high levels of fiscal stimulus – despite being popularly characterised as austere. The government reduced taxes while maintaining high levels of spending, covering the gap between the two with borrowing – while promising reduced spending in future.”

Should be stood down for a week at least…

What’s an small open, economy in the South Pacific gonna do ?

As delusional as that “small yard, high fence” nonsense we heard from the previous Administration!

A minefield to put it mildly. Will create innumerable problems of interpretation esp for business.

This will be interesting to watch - does the rest if the world still uphold the rules-based system or not?

The trade gain is small on the scheme of things as Canada made minimal concessions on dairy in CPTPP (and then tried to back-track by skewing TRQ admin). These pale in the face of the US now charging 10%+ on dairy incl for our WTO CSTQ on cheese while charging Canada (at least for now) precisely 0

Phew. No tariffs on maple syrup then …

Objecting is for losers, paraphrasing the Governor of Texas ..

Blaming Jacinda for the pandemic, seriously …

IP4 turning into IP1 as Japan, Korea, Australia not attending leaving plucky NZ to fill the breach!

“As a small country, you have to acknowledge we’re not a medium power, not a large power, right? So I have to find ways to influence what I believe in and what we believe in in New Zealand – which is a set of values – and actually put voice to those values and articulate them well,” Luxon said.

Very pleased to see Southern Link now becoming a commercial reality!

Better late than never I suppose. Canada really must get over its zero sum approach to trade!

When the OECD urges countries to “strike deals” with the US you know we must be in trouble…

Blimey !

Uh oh

Lord have mercy

Congratulations @jonathanmilne.bsky.social !

This is awful but it is one side’s spin.

Pleased to be chairing this new group advising on the implementation of trade agreements. We have a defined mandate around the NZ/EU FTA and the sustainability and labour provisions of the NZ/UK FTA.

Obit Joseph Nye - outstanding scholar of soft power politics.

And only allowed to watch reruns of American movies from the 60s

Some pleasing momentum here but it should not detract from deepening and expanding #CPTPP.

How do you apply a tariff to movies ??

“Canada now desperately needs to diversify its trade. Jacobi suggests that may increase their interest in expanding the CPTP”

Always a must-read!