Washington, DC has spent decades – in bipartisan fashion – making the lives of our farmers more and more miserable. Ridiculous tax policies. Most especially the Estate Tax – aka the Death Tax: “Death taxes are taxes imposed by the federal and/or state government on someone’s estate upon their death. These taxes are levied on…
Now-President Donald Trump has been remarkably consistent in his thoughts on global trade. Let us again flash all the way back to 1988. Then mere global businessman Trump was on “The Oprah Winfrey Show.” On which he said: “I do get tired of seeing the country ripped off….I do get tired of seeing what’s happening….How…
We’ve been talking since at least 2013 about how un-free and un-fair our global trade has been. Global trade has been an anti-US mess – for decades. The planet has been massively ripping us off – in myriad ways. Which has done massive damage to our domestic economy – in myriad ways. Today’s Free Trade…
Behold the 21st Century’s diet version of an “international incident”: Could a Tweet Sink the (National Basketball Association) NBA’s Business Relationships in China? It’s Complicated: “(A) single tweet from a general manager supporting protesters in Hong Kong could threaten that relationship and affect the way the public here and abroad views the league’s intentions on…
Washington, D.C.’s very swampy denizens have spent the last half-century-plus perpetrating a panoply of frauds against We the People. Perhaps the most Gaslight-y of them all – has been DCs fake free trade. We the People have watched DCs fake free trade – dispatch millions of our jobs and trillions of our dollars to everywhere…
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…
