Commenda Media Issue I is here.
A print and digital magazine on global free markets, trade, and the people building across borders. Our inaugural issue ships now.
There are nearly 7,000 special economic zones around the world. Most have failed. The few that succeeded transformed economies and changed the course of entire countries. What separates the exceptions from the rule?
Read @JeffJMason in Issue I of Commenda Media.
"America produces 0.04% of the world's commercial gross tonnage. Americans currently own 1.89% of global shipping in terms of dead weight tonnage. The gap between production and ownership is even more striking in China. China (including Hong Kong) built 54.6% of the world's shipping in gross tonnage terms, but owns only 20.1%. China builds 1,271.1 times as much shipping as the United States, but owns only 10.6 times as much. I
f the United States wants to compete with China in shipping, ownership is a considerably more viable strategy than shipbuilding, particularly once the economies of scale that have already concentrated in East Asia are accounted for."
from @CalebDPetitt in the new @commendamedia
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"The West has lost its understanding of its own prosperity. Industrial policy is the antithesis of what made the West great."
Gary North's work typifies the problem. There are many great thinkers producing insightful work. But the actual politicians only read shallow influencers
I convinced a founder to make a magazine. Update: it worked.
My friend Spencer runs a cross-border tax & compliance company that has not made enough noise for how well it’s doing: deep customer love, remarkable logos, growing like a weed, excellent retention.
Importantly, Spencer’s takes on tariffs, economic impacts of warfare, and the WTO are too good — and they inform everything his team is building at @CommendaHQ.
Distribution is everything and the winners will be unconventional. While competitors write the same SEO blogs, Commenda is positioning itself as the trusted resource for expanding overseas in today’s fraught climate.
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