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Peter Harrell
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@petereharrell

Peter Harrell

@petereharrell
Visiting Scholar, Georgetown Law School IIEL. Attorney. Host, “Security Economics” podcast. Mostly international economics posts.
Joined May 2010
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  • @petereharrell
    Peter Harrell
    @petereharrell
    21h
    Wild that the AI model from the Chinese company actually on the U.S. Entity List (Z ai's GLM 5.3) appears to given honest answers in censorship testing, whereas DeepSeek and, to a lesser extent Kimi, are committed to Chinese propaganda.
    @ChorzempaMartin
    Martin Chorzempa 马永哲
    @ChorzempaMartin
    Aug 28
    Testing CN open model censorship (on FeatherlessAPI to see if it's baked into model) on most sensitive CN queries I can think of, and wow DeepSeek was deceptive. -GLM-5.3 Flash: Zero refusals or censorship -Kimi K3 first gives propaganda, then when pushed snaps out of it,
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  • @petereharrell
    Peter Harrell
    @petereharrell
    Aug 31
    A glut of whiskey aging in barrels is bad for distillers, but I am looking forward to price wars letting me pick up some bargains on great spirits over the next few years…
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    Peter Harrell
    @petereharrell
    Aug 30
    The AI and tech industries--as well as other US industries--need to be paying more attention a case out in California about whether the federal government can use the DPA to restart offshore oil production despite California environmental laws against it. Most of the coverage of
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  • @petereharrell
    Peter Harrell
    @petereharrell
    Aug 30
    My understanding is that the Pentagon has mostly been taking equity stakes under the DPA, not under OSC authorities. So even if OSC money is being provided, the authority for the equity is coming elsewhere. The DPA is up for renewal this year and the current mark caps equity
    @scottlincicome
    Scott Lincicome
    @scottlincicome
    Aug 30
    Pentagon spokesman tells Reuters that its Office of Strategic Capital - which reportedly spearheaded the Venezuela equity deal (and by our count at Cato has done SIX other govt equity deals) - doesn't have the legal authority to take equity stakes. What? reuters.com/legal/legalind…
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  • @petereharrell
    Peter Harrell
    @petereharrell
    Aug 30
    The provision of Section 301 that USTR has used for the "forced labor" tariffs does not require strict proportionality between the value of the "burden" a foreign trade practice puts on US commerce. It does, however, require that the rate of tariffs be "appropriate and
    @Brad_Setser
    Brad Setser
    @Brad_Setser
    Aug 30
    Completely agree
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