I Was on Bloomberg Yesterday: "Daybreak Australia"

Bloomberg: Prof. DeLong Says Better If U.S. in TPP Negotiating With China: "University of California at Berkeley Professor Brad DeLong weighs in on U.S and China trade talks, and talks about the makeup of the U.S. negotiating team. DeLong speaks on "Bloomberg Daybreak: Australia..."

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/videos/2018-05-03/prof-delong-says-tax-cut-for-rich-growing-trade-deficit-video

My talking points on the China-U.S. trade "negotiations":

This is not normal...

We should not let anybody pretend that this is normal...

Trump seems very unclear about what he wants...

Most of Trump's advisors want Trump to be satified with a fig leaf and go back to doing something else...

Navarro does not seem to understand the situation...

Lighthizer understands the situation, but he is acting as though he doesn't...

Voluntary Export Restraints are absolute poison for the U.S. economy...

Lighthizer and Mnuchin certainly know better, and

What Trump now says his concerns are are all the reasons Obama negotiated the TPP���it would be much better if the U.S. were now part of a front of 12 allied countries negotiating with China on these issues rather than just one trying the negotiate by itself...

Reagan... knew he was the star, but not the boss, & that his job was to convincingly say lines crafted for him by skilled competent professionals...

Trump... thinks his job is to blather 24/7, & he has no clue that the reason he worked on Reality TV was that skilled competent professionals took the 24 & cut it down to 1/2 an hour that made a narrative. But Trump seems incapable of grasping that that is not how it works anymore: skilled professional interested in making him look good do not censor his tweets for effectiveness and sanity...