Patrick Chovanec
Managing Director, Chief Strategist at Silvercrest Asset Management, Adjunct Professor at Columbia SIPA, former biz prof at Tsinghua University in Beijing
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The forgotten war which made Transylvania Romanian
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Patrick Chovanec
August 1919 - Article on "The Forgotten War That Made Transylvania Romanian" #100yearsago
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Mercosur bloc leaders meet to fast-track EU trade deal
Member nations and the European Union in June agreed to a deal that will eliminate nearly all tariffs on two-way trade.
Nigeria joins the 'world's largest free trade area'
The African Union estimates that the agreement could boost intra-African trade by 60% by 2022.
Thailand and EU prepare for signing of a strategic trade partnership
Thailand and the European Union are ready to sign a draft Strategic Partnership and Cooperation Agreement to promote bilateral trade and investment in the future. Federica Mogherini, an EU Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, and...
Tears in rain soliloquy - Blade Runner (1982)
"I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. [laughs] Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched c-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhä...
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Patrick Chovanec
Actor Rutger Hauer has died, at age 75.
An appropriate moment to re-watch his best scene ever, here
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A third of women only date men because of the free food: study
The results are in: she only wanted to try that hot new restaurant. A new study published Friday in the Society for Personality and Social Psychology journal found that a quarter to a third of hete…
Chinese auto sales post worst-ever monthly decline as trade war...
China reported the worst-ever monthly sales drop in the world's largest veh...
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Patrick Chovanec
11th straight month means there’s something besides trade war going on here. China’s slowdown is driven primarily by internal problems, not trade tensions.
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A Sad Finale
Look, I share David’s love of Game of Thrones. But I thought the finale was largely a bust.
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Patrick Chovanec
Rely on @JonahNRO to ask the key question: Will Bran be more loyal to his Three-Eyed Raven agenda or the country? #WesterosFirst
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Google suspends some business with Huawei amid US-China trade war
Patrick Chovanec of Silvercrest Asset Management and Tony Fratto of Hamilton Place Strategies join CNBC's "Power Lunch" team to discuss trade talks between China and the U.S. and the Huawei fallout.
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Patrick Chovanec
Here’s part of my appearance on @cnbc today alongside @TonyFratto talking about US-China trade tensions.
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Violent Japanese Mascot That Tickled John Oliver Is Suspended by Twitter
The mascot Chiitan, modeled on a real-life otter, drew notoriety for violent stunts that delighted social media users and the HBO comedian.
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Patrick Chovanec
Note how US stance on China is being taken as a warning to all other trading partners, instead of an opportunity to work with our other trading partners to put maximum pressure on China. This is how America First becomes America Alone.
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Why didn’t scientists photograph the black hole at the center of the Milky Way?
After years of work and a whole lot of hype, researchers working with the Event Horizon Telescope project finally unveiled the very first image ever captured of an actual black hole this week. The relatively low-res image was nonetheless fantastic,...
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Patrick Chovanec
My 9-year old son just asked me if the photo of the black hole in the news is of the black hole at the center of our own galaxy. I didn’t know, so I looked it up. It isn’t, and here’s why
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Billionaire dies during Paris penis enlargement operation
Billionaire diamond trader Ehud Arye Laniad’s pursuit of a plentiful penis has ended in his death.The 65-year-old big wheel died of a heart attack at a private Paris hospital where he was und…
Farmer bankruptcies swell to decade high in the Midwest
Trump’s trade disputes are only adding salt to the wounds of low commodity prices.
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Patrick Chovanec
Guess what? It seems there were winners as well as losers from trade. Emphasis on "were".
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Melania Trump's time in Egypt cost taxpayers $95,050
The White House spent more than $95,000 on first lady Melania Trump's time in Cairo during her trip to Africa last month, according to newly-released government data.
Bloomberg - Are you a robot?
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Patrick Chovanec
China has an entrenched competitive advantage in Christmas tree lights, and Trump’s tariffs aren’t changing that.
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World War I Relived Day by Day
The fact that nobody saw the end coming, the way it did, highlights the value of going back, a hundred years later, and reliving events day by day, as they took place. What may seem obvious now was anything but so then, and we do the people who...
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The New York Review of Books @nybooks has published an article I wrote about my experience live-tweeting the First World War for the past four years.
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Praying for Jamal Khashoggi
Saudi Arabia stands accused of killing him. If it did, it will be a disaster for the regime of Mohammed bin Salman.
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Patrick Chovanec
Friedman has come in for some flak on his recent laudatory op-eds on MBS and Saudi Arabia. But this piece is both sober and sound. If there's any truth to these suspicions, the consequences could be devastating.
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