"There are more things in Heaven and Earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy."
Concerns anything relating to commerce between nations.
At a time when Russia is conquering Ukraine, and threatening the Baltic states (Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia) and Poland), despair for our own security is all too easy. This is … Read More
Trade war with China has created great corporate uncertainties about the international supply chains of U.S. companies. These uncertainties have caused American companies to pull back from investments to produce … Read More
The much feared trade war with China is the least of the problems we have with that great nation. The People’s Republic of China appears to be hardwired to seek … Read More
Peter Navarro and Larry Kudlow, Donald Trump’s top advisors on foreign trade. Left: Prof. Peter Navarro Wikimedia Commons / White House Right: Larry Kudlow Wikimedia Commons / … Read More
President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump pose for a photo with Chinese President Xi Jingping and his wife, Mrs. Peng Liyuan, Thursday, April 6, 2017, at the entrance … Read More
Incoming and outgoing international trade in San Francisco Bay Wikimedia Commons / National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Arguments over U.S. tax policies are moving toward a controversial tax proposal around … Read More
An imaginary European seaport painted by Claude Lorrain around 1639, at the height of mercantilism Wikimedia Commons / Musée du Louvre / Mbzt In the year 1776, the same year in which 13 … Read More
Container shipping has revolutionized foreign trade by greatly reducing costs of transportation by ship, rail, and truck. Wikimedia Commons / Hafiz343 I have written several times about why foreign trade … Read More
Trump speaking at 2015 Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) Photo Credit: Wikimedia Commons/Gage Skidmore Marco Rubio’s call at last night’s Republican debate to fact check the differences between Donald Trump’s … Read More
photo credit: Taxes – Illustration via photopin (license) This morning I read an astonishing conjecture that something could actually be done this year about the tax burdens hobbling the American … Read More
Leaving the U.S. for more salubrious climes! Photo Credit: free images.com/Oziris Last June 10 I wrote a heads-up about a wave of large corporations possibly leaving the United … Read More
Photovoltaic Production Line Photo Credit: canstockphoto.com/06photo In our last post we sketched out the Solow-Swan model of economic growth that created an economic picture of per … Read More
Container ship from Asia Photo Credit: Flickr.com/Peter Kaminski Last Monday the United States and 11 other countries with shores on the Pacific Ocean reached … Read More
This post is a very short post script to yesterday’s post on the economy’s weakening condition. In that post I noted the current evidence of both the stock markets and … Read More
Grizzly bears looking for a market to eat! Photo Credit: Flickr.com/wallyg We all know the U.S. stock markets are beginning to enter “Bear” territory, but are … Read More
Donald Trump: “You’re Fired!” Photo Credit: Flickr/WalkingGeek Democrats are having a field day, chortling at Donald Trump’s candidacy for the Republican nomination. The Huffington Post and Policy.Mic thought … Read More
Al Qaeda and ISIS are not the only islamic jihadist organizations to worry about; there is Iran as well. The Washington Times has cited a release from the Iranian Fars … Read More
Astoundingly, Donald Trump is currently at the head of the Republican pack. He does present some attractive (albeit vague) positions for conservatives, but his past political affiliations and flip-flops in … Read More
David Ricardo by Thomas Phillips, oil on canvas, circa 1821 Wikimedia Commons / Thomas Phillips (1770-1845) The next classical law of economics we shall investigate is Ricardo’s law of comparative … Read More
