Matthew Bey

I am an analyst at @Stratfor and @RANEnetwork. I am also a die-hard Chicago Cubs fan. My views are my own and RT ≠ endorsement.

[Matthew Bey @Matthew_Bey]

Oh joy. This is such a left wing government.

[Financial Times @FT]

Trump says US may take equity stakes in AI companies https://t.co/ysUDGKrImM

[Matthew Bey @Matthew_Bey]

The report is less than 100 pages. Some of the countries have like 50 words on them about the findings. For comparison the Sec 301 report on China a decade ago was 215 pages. On China.

[Matthew Bey @Matthew_Bey]

What a bullshit probe. There's no way the USTR which has like 220 employees did halfway decent investigations on this and magically determined that these countries deserved a tariff rate almost identical to one that just happens to expire roughly when these come into effect. The absurdity.

[United States Trade Representative @USTradeRep]

For nearly a century, the United States has prohibited the importation of goods made with forced labor. It is time for our trading partners to follow suit.

Today, Ambassador Greer determined that the acts, policies, and practices of 60 economies related to the failure to prohibit the importation of goods produced with forced labor is unreasonable and burdens or restricts U.S. commerce.

Learn more about submitting public comments regarding the proposed responsive action: https://t.co/8Su5baWqA1

[Matthew Bey @Matthew_Bey]

I'm truly shocked the Trump administration did a bad faith investigation and somehow determined that the damage was enough to warrant a 25% tariff on Brazil (aka a tax on Americans). Oh by the way the U.S. has not had a bilateral trade deficit with Brazil since 2007.

[Reuters @Reuters]

The Trump administration has proposed a new punitive tariff of 25% on many imports from Brazil, after deciding its practices were unfair on a range of issues from digital trade to illegal deforestation, top trade official Jamieson Greer said https://t.co/XsLgRhCJuf

[Matthew Bey @Matthew_Bey]

I wonder if this quote will go down in the history booke for all the wrong reasons.

[The White House @WhiteHouse]

TRUST IN TRUMP.

"Just sit back and relax, it will all work out well in the end - It always does!" - President Donald J. Trump. 🇺🇸

[Matthew Bey @Matthew_Bey]

Ffs https://t.co/QhMJkMotwf

[𝙱𝚛𝚢𝚊𝚗 𝚁𝚒𝚕𝚎𝚢 🗽🇺🇸 @FreeTradeBryan]

This op-ed from USTR Jamieson Greer is entirely backwards. U.S. trade policy must catch up to trade theory! 🧵

[Mehtaab Sawhney @mehtaab_sawhney]

A remarkable paper appeared on arXiv tonight by Thomas Bloom, Will Sawin, Carl Schildkraut and Dmitrii Zhelezov. In this paper, they prove that there exists c>0 and arbitrarily large finite sets A of real numbers such that max(|A+A|,|AA|)≤|A|^{2-c}. This disproves the well-known sum-product conjecture over the real numbers. The sum-product conjecture considers the two most basic operations: addition and multiplication. A+A is the set of all pairwise sums of two elements in A while AA is the set of all pairwise products of two elements in A. (1/5)

[Matthew Bey @Matthew_Bey]

The U.S. bombing and sanctioning Oman would be the perfect way for 2026 to get even dumber.

[Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent @SecScottBessent]

The United States Government will not tolerate any effort to impose a tolling system in the Strait of Hormuz. Oman, in particular, should know that the U.S. Treasury will aggressively target any actors involved - directly or indirectly - in facilitating tolls for the Strait and any willing partners will be penalized. All nations should reject outright any efforts by Iran to disrupt the free flow of commerce. Tehran’s days of terrorizing the region and the world are over.

[Matthew Bey @Matthew_Bey]

The Republicans are melting down over the potential US-Iran deal.

[Ted Cruz @tedcruz]

I am deeply concerned about what we are hearing about an Iran “deal,” being pushed by some voices in the administration.

President Trump’s decision to strike Iran was the most consequential decision of his second term. He was right to do so, and we achieved extraordinary military results—including destroying all of their missiles & drones and sinking their entire navy.

If the result of all that is to be an Iranian regime—still run by Islamists who chant “death to America”—now receiving billions of dollars, being able to enrich uranium & develop nuclear weapons, and having effective control over the Strait of Hormuz, then that outcome would be a disastrous mistake.

The details are still coming out—and I pray the early reports are wrong—but the fact that Biden’s Rob Malley is praising the deal is not encouraging.

President Trump believes in peace through strength, and his strong leadership has already made America much safer. He should continue to hold the line, defend America & enforce the red lines he has repeatedly drawn.

[Matthew Zeitlin @MattZeitlin]

jcpoa for slow learners

[Matthew Bey @Matthew_Bey]

Would imagine the Iranians would only actually give it up as a part of a final deal with sanctions relief

[Phil Stewart @phildstewart]

IRAN AGREED TO GIVE UP ENRICHED URANIUM IN DEAL ANNOUNCED BY TRUMP, U.S. OFFICIALS SAY- NYT

[Matthew Bey @Matthew_Bey]

This is a stupid opinion. How do these people get elected? https://t.co/AFE27d82y9

[Matthew Bey @Matthew_Bey]

It truly is amazing how the Trump administration realizes that tariffs on semiconductors would be a gift to China but not tariffs on other intermediate goods are a gift to China...

[Bloomberg @business]

The Trump administration continues to weigh US tariffs on imported semiconductors to boost domestic chip manufacturing, though there are no immediate plans to impose any new levies, US Trade Representative Jamieson Greer said https://t.co/LHryjHPo89

[Matthew Bey @Matthew_Bey]

ummmm congressman-elect? good job jennings

[Scott Jennings @ScottJenningsKY]

Thomas Massie chose to end his career with this despicable line about Congressman-elect Ed Gallrein: “I had to find him in Tel Aviv.”

Rather than exit with dignity, Massie just proved President Trump was right to send him into early retirement.

[Mike Levin @MikeLevin]

This New York Times piece on the January 6th slush fund is worth your time. Here’s what is happening, as simply as I can put it.

Back in January, Trump sued the IRS, an agency he controls, demanding $10 billion over the leak of his tax returns a number of years ago.

IRS lawyers did their jobs. They wrote a memo laying out the defenses that could beat the suit, including the fact that Trump filed too late. His own lawyer was in court when the leaker pleaded guilty in October 2023, more than two years before Trump sued.

The Justice Department never showed up to court. Never argued back. Never used the defenses sitting on their desk.

The judge got suspicious and ordered both sides to explain whether they were actually opposing each other or just colluding. The day before that brief was due, Trump dropped the suit.

Same day, his Justice Department announced a $1.776 billion taxpayer-funded “anti-weaponization fund.” 

Trump gets a formal apology. The IRS agrees to drop any audits of him and his family, even though a 2024 Times report found a loss in an ongoing audit could cost him over $100 million.

The acting Attorney General, Trump’s former criminal defense attorney, picks the five commissioners who decide who gets paid. Trump can fire any of them. Proud Boys and Oath Keepers are not ruled out.

This is the most corrupt thing I’ve ever seen from an American president.

Where in the hell are my Republican colleagues?

https://t.co/La0nlLuz1r

[Matthew Bey @Matthew_Bey]

okay so we are not close to a real deal

[Diana Nerozzi @diana_nerozzi]

On Iran negotiations, senior White House official told me the major sticking points are still 1. no nuclear weapons 2. opening the Strait of Hormuz

"Number one goal is Iran can't have a nuclear weapon. Number two, the Strait needs to be open, no tolling, no strikes by Iran ..."

[Matthew Bey @Matthew_Bey]

The Iran war has been such a strategic success....

[*Walter Bloomberg @DeItaone]

IRAN'S IRGC NAVY SAYS 26 VESSELS, INCLUDING OIL TANKERS, CONTAINER SHIPS, AND OTHER COMMERCIAL VESSELS TRANSITED STRAIT OF HORMUZ IN PAST 24 HOURS IN COORDINATION WITH IRAN

[Matthew Bey @Matthew_Bey]

Hahaha haha.

[Mark Mazzetti @MarkMazzettiNYT]

NEW: The regime change plan at the beginning of the Iran War called for installing Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Iran's former hard line president known for accelerating the nuclear program and denying the Holocaust, as the country's new. leader.https://t.co/wOIGpeFGY9