• Well, given the competence of the current administration in Washington (outlined here by Matt Yglesias), there’s not much optimism for the future of US as a representative trading partner (and perhaps not even as a global financier).  See David Wallace-Wells must-read NYT opinion piece It’s Not Hard to Imagine a Chinese-Led Global Economy – and for a small depressing aside, Daniel Piketty’s blog post Rethinking the world without the US.