Ryan Research Pub Talk are conversations that took place on live-streamed Twitter Spaces. The host Peter Ryan is joined by Juan David Rojas, Alex Bronzini-Vender, Geoff Shullenberger, Theo McDonald, Michael Cuenco, and other impromptu speakers.

We discussed Yanis Varoufakis' UnHerd essay "Donald Trump’s economic masterplan". He defined his view of Trump's masterplan as the following Trump combining the incompatible goals of 1.) a hegemonic dollar and low-yielding US Treasuries with 2.) a depreciated dollar and more domestic manufacturing through the shock therapy of tariffs as a stick to hit foreign central banks with. The essay link:

https://unherd.com/2025/02/why-trumps-tariffs-are-a-masterplan/

Speaker Links:

https://x.com/rojasrjuand

https://x.com/alexbronzini

https://x.com/g_shullenberger

https://x.com/tbald101

https://x.com/1TrueCuencoism

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