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There's also not a market for things that are hard to explain like multilateral trade agreements. It's much easier to shout, "It was Bush's fault!" or "But wha

There's also not a market for things that are hard to explain like multilateral trade agreements. It's much easier to shout, "It was Bush's fault!" or "But what about Benghazi?"

JumpCrisscross 12y ago
> There's also not a market for things that are hard to explain like multilateral trade agreements. Financial institutions, macro-oriented asset managers and companies with multinational supply chains and long-term assets are each affected by these dynamics. Gaining intelligence on the nature and implications of trade negotiations is huge business. I spent a good amount of time, as a trader, trying to anticipate how sundry domestic political variables constrained international actors, thereby predicting the odds of various trade structures arising from a forum (or of a forum even materialising in the first place).