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Small Firms Shifting Horizons As A Result Of Brexit

The Horizons Tracker

It shows clear attempts to move exports away from EU markets to elsewhere in the world. The data showed that the smallest exporters were shifting up to 46% of their export growth from the EU to other markets since the referendum in 2016, with slightly larger firms shifting around 19% of their exports. Gravity defying. Tariff barriers.

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50 Years Ago an Economist Worried About Unchecked Corporate Power. Here’s What His Theory Got Wrong

Harvard Business Review

And if you landed from outer space in 1967, those large firms looked like the planned bureaucracies on the other side of the Iron Curtain. Galbraith’s answer was that they needed to be so because technology required large amounts of capital to be deployed — think your large auto assembly, oil refineries, and chemical plants.

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Why Trump and Xi’s 90-Day Trade Truce Is a Step in the Right Direction

Harvard Business Review

These two were perceived to be softer, less knowledgeable, more pro-globalization, and more concerned about financial markets than Lighthizer. There were a hundred ways in which the bureaucracy could quietly carve up a company, and the company would have no effective recourse. But the important point here is that the main U.S.