US President Donald Trump has kicked off a tit-for-tat tariff war, claiming that foreign tariffs against American goods harms America and that American tariffs against foreign goods are essential to rebuild America’s manufacturing base. Frankly, [more…]
In a previous article I suggested that the BRICS, lead by China and Russia, might offer an alternative international trade settlement system that would be independent of the US and the dollar. The BRICS have [more…]
There is much gnashing of teeth and pulling of hair by just about every leader in the West, especially by an almost apoplectic President Trump, over a so-called “sinister threat” by the BRICS nations to [more…]
As regular readers know, I have been compiling the essays in my “Economic Perspectives” series with a view to publishing the collection as a single work, which should come to fruition in a month or [more…]
For a long time political pundits have wished that the US government was run “more like a business”; thus, believing that a businessman would be preferable to a politician. A businessman’s goal is to make [more…]
President Trump’s tariff blitz has shocked and alienated almost all students of economic science, but he seems to have a loyal following of support among the electorate. Students of economic science have a rich history [more…]
Keith’s expertise is certainly not in negotiating and especially not with the Donald. Despite shouting from the rooftops how wonderful our new trade deal with the US is (remember only possible because of Brexit) the [more…]
The idea that England and America are two countries separated by the same language is often attributed to George Bernard Shaw, but there are other attributes that separate us as well. We in the US [more…]
Oh, I know. You aren’t REALLY against free trade per se. You just demand a “level playing field”. Those Chinese cheat by raising tariffs against our goods and subsidizing key industries that they want to [more…]
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