Xi Jinping Sends Message to Apple
Here is Rush Limbaugh on Xi Jinping’s “message to Apple”: “Apple Could Be Used as a ‘Bargaining Chip’ in the Trade War, Says Chinese State Media.” Now, this is a little fascinating story here….
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Are Globalists Plotting a Counter-Revolution?
By Pat Buchanan: Consider the fruits of free trade policy during the last 25 years: the frozen wages of U.S. workers, $12 trillion in U.S. trade deficits, 55,000 factories lost, 6 million manufacturing jobs gone,…
Read MoreNot all trade is equal
By Kaya Forest and Sierra Rayne: Trading partners will try to reframe the debate, but the Trump administration needs to stay focused on the simple yet undeniable fact that high rates of economic growth…
Read MoreWhy is Trump fighting the trade war? Here’s why.
By Greg Richards: Critics of Trump’s trade policies think everything is okay if we don’t do anything. The chart below shows that everything is not okay if we don’t do anything.
Read MoreFree Trade’s Faustian Bargain: Selling America’s Soul for Trinkets
By Spencer P. Morrison: Will we abandon our devotion to the false god of “free trade,” and instead return to the time-tested wisdom of tariffs?
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Libertarian God-Kings Throw in With Democratic Socialists
Here is Ed Ring letting the libertarian Koch brothers have it and have it good: The well-heeled, much-feared Koch network announced from its biannual meeting in Colorado Springs this week that it would withhold…
Read MoreTrump’s Transactional Worldview is a Benefit
By Brandon J. Weichert: President Donald Trump is not playing three-dimensional chess while everyone else is playing checkers. Certainly, compared to his rivals—Republican and Democrat alike—the president is running circles around them. But the…
Read MoreHow Trump Could Be Like Reagan
By Stephen Moore, Arthur B. Laffer and Steve Forbes: Just as Ronald Reagan once pushed for abolishing nuclear weapons, President Trump should call for ending tariffs.
Read MoreThe Republican Party: Not Much of a Horse But the Only One in the Corral
By Jared Peterson: The tragedy of American conservatism is that its only electoral home is in a party most of whose funds come from those who agree with the globalist agenda and whose privileged…
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Tariffs Made America Great
For a lot more on the topic of trade and tariffs, visit this page. Here is Pat Buchanan with a little history that is pretty much ignored by many: “Make America Great Again” will,…
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The NY Times is Wrong About Trade and Tariffs — So is Everybody Else
Here is an interesting article about trade and tariffs from Spencer P. Morrison: President Trump earlier this month told CBS News that the European Union is America’s “foe” because of “what they do to us in trade.”…
Read MorePresident Donald J. Trump Launches a New Reciprocal Trade Relationship with the European Union
From the White House: “We met right here at the White House to launch a new phase in the relationship between the United States and the European Union.”
Read MoreNo, Tariffs Are Not ‘Domestic Sanctions’
By Spencer P. Morrison: Long run economic growth depends upon technological growth—not free trade, not immigration, not low taxes, etc. Technology is the only factor that matters: it’s what separates the West from the rest, and ourselves…
Read MoreKarl Marx, Free Trader
By Spencer P. Morrison: What do David Ricardo, Ben Shapiro, and Karl Marx have in common? They’re all free traders.
Read MoreBe Skeptical of This Study Slamming ‘Isolationist’ Trade
By Spencer P. Morrison: There are just two problems. Authors don’t always write their own headlines, but in any case, The Hill’s headline is misleading. Second, the study itself is junk.
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