0:01 A Clearer Way to See Policy The episode opens by trading the week’s political complaints for a teaching segment that promises to trace what policies actually do, rather than how they appear on the surface. It sets up the hour’s wager: that the economics behind everyday political fights is far more understandable than it’s […]
Depending on who you listen to, tariffs are good, or tariffs are bad. Tariffs will make us rich, or tariffs will make us poor. Tariffs are terrific, or tariffs are terrible. Where people stand on tariffs mostly depends on where they stand on Donald Trump. The heart of the matter is not so much tariffs […]
Free trade is a true misnomer, a ruse. Free trade is not fair trade. It always has lots of controlling tentacles. NAFTA is the example for why we should get out of all Free Trade Agreements (FTA’s). NAFTA proponent Gary Hufbauer member of the Council on Foreign Relations and of the Peterson Institute for International […]
— Published with Permission of ConservativeHQ.com — “We got China wrong. Now what?” ran the headline over the column in the Washington Post. “Remember how American engagement with China was going to make that communist backwater more like the democratic, capitalist West?” asked Charles Lane in his opening sentence. America’s elites believed that economic engagement and […]
— Reprinted with Permission of The New American magazine — Today, U.S. Senator Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.), chairman of the Subcommittee on Immigration and the National Interest, publicly released a letter he had sent to President Obama on June 5, demanding answers to questions he had asked in a similar letter a month earlier, as well […]
— Reprinted with Permission of The John Birch Society — It’s crunch time for America’s national independence and personal freedoms! For the last several years the Obama administration, with the enthusiastic support of most congressional Republicans, has been negotiating two mammoth trade partnerships that would put our nation on the path to economic and political […]
— Reprinted with Permission of The John Birch Society — On April 16 Senate Finance and House Ways and Means committees introduced Trade Promotion Authority bill. On April 16, a new Trade Promotion Authority bill was unveiled by the Senate Finance Committee and House Ways and Means Committee. These committees are expected to expedite this […]
Firstly, I care about Republicans. Or at least have until recently, having voted Republican most of my life. It seems anyone can be young and naïve for at least a little while, buying into such as “Ask not what your country can do for you… and then the experiences of life and common sense finally […]
— This article is reprinted in part with the permission of The New American magazine — After voting for “Fast Track” for NAFTA and then for NAFTA itself, then-Senator John Kerry (shown in pink tie) professed total surprise when a NAFTA court trampled U.S. state laws and overruled U.S. courts — precisely as this magazine […]
— This article is reprinted with the permission of The New American magazine — On November 13, 2013, WikiLeaks released to the Internet what appears to be a portion of the secretly negotiated draft version of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) agreement. Although the entire agreement reportedly runs over 1,000 pages and covers nearly every conceivable […]