I begin with a disclosure. The Wall Street Journal piece we will examine was penned by the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI)’s Iain Murray. CEI is a fine organization. And I consider a great many of their people to be friends – including Murray. But Murray really misses the mark with Tuesday’s “Free-Marketeers Have Taken Social…
President Donald Trump is rightly, reasonably trying to get the planets’ nations to stop robbing US blind. It’s been global sport for decades. We are the planet’s Super Suckers. We get robbed in a wide variety of ways. The net result of any and all of them? Hundreds of billions of dollars per year that…
One hundred-plus countries engage each year in tens of trillions of dollars worth of global trade. Far too many nations engage in all sorts of anti-free trade actions – so as to warp the markets to their advantage. And when caught, far too many nations don’t stop their anti-free trade actions – they look for…
Many countries – most especially Communist China – subsidize their domestic products that are then sold on the global market. This isn’t free trade. Some countries – most especially Communist China – intentionally subsidize to such an extent they sell their domestic products on the global market at a loss. This isn’t free trade. And…
We didn’t win the (first) Cold War with Communist Russia – by handing them trillions of dollars. Embargoes and Sanctions – Cold War Sanctions: “In 1948, the United States began a campaign of economic sanctions against the Soviet Union that would last more than fifty years…. “For many years, the embargo on the Soviet Union…
There seems to be a wide swath of the population – thankfully centered mostly in Washington, D.C. – that acts as if history started the day Donald J. Trump was sworn in as our 45th President. Chief among them – are the proponents of alleged “free trade.” In this, they are very much like the…
When President Donald Trump was Candidate Donald Trump – he promised a restoration of the US manufacturing sector. Which his predecessor – thankfully-ex-president Barack Obama – dismissed as impossible: “When somebody says – like the person you just mentioned, who I’m not going to advertise for – that he’s going to bring all these jobs…
As we have very often pointed out, the US spent the last half century-plus very stupidly outsourcing our prosperity to the rest of the planet. This has been devastating to the middle class. A vital, once-thriving driver of our once very successful nation – we have spent decades thinning this essential herd to near extinction.…
We are in the midst of a worldwide anti-globalist nationalist movement. The first major move – was Brexit. Great Britain voting three years ago to get the heck out of the ridiculous European Union (EU). And reassert its national primacy and sovereignty on such things as immigration and trade. Up next was the United States’…
The World Trade Organization (WTO): “(I)s the only global international organization dealing with the rules of trade between nations.” As with nigh all global organizations – much of what the WTO does is unfairly tilted against the United States. (See also: The United Nations.) The WTOs anti-Americanism is oft embodied in how the organization gives…
