French-Style Protectionism Comes to America (and soon the world?)
“A New Threat to America Inc.,” by Jeffrey Garten, Business Week, 25 July 2005, pg 114, http://businessweek.com/magazine/content/05_30/b3944123.htm. France and the rest of “Old Europe” have rightly...
View ArticleKathleen Sebelius, Barack Obama’s Prairie Demagogue
This morning I saw Kansas Governor Kathleen Sebelius on Meet the Press with Tom Brokaw. She was supporting Barack Obama, obviously hoping for the Vice Presidential slot that was denied Jim Webb. She is...
View ArticleThe Smoot-Hawley Bailout
The Smoot-Hawley Tarrif Act was a bill designed to prevent American jobs from going overseas, that helped turn the Great Recession into the Great Depression. It created a “beggar-thy-neighbor” policy,...
View ArticleWhat is Obama thinking?
Granted, it’s not a spy plane, but it’s not April 2001, either Beijing – China’s central bank rejected allegations by a senior US official that China is manipulating the exchange rates of its currency,...
View ArticleObama’s Distracting Fear-based Unilateralism
Protectionism may be Obama’s Iraq War, a huge, costly, error-prone, distracting, program that generates enemies and just might work. The enemies are all over, including the generally pro-Obama CNBC...
View ArticleObama v. NAFTA
Obama, fresh from signing two buy-American laws and quoting from the Book of Revelations, tried to put a rest to the confusion in the West Wing by giving our trade and diplomatic program a clear...
View ArticleMore protectionism from the government
In yet another move seemingly designed to harm free trade, alienate us from our trading partners, and hurt the global economy, the government front corporation of Sallie Mae is firing foreigners are...
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