by Andrew Moran | Oct 17, 2019 | Articles, Business News, Economic Affairs News, International, Politics, Trade
Sorry, everyone, it is time to put the cork back in the bubbly and return your “I survived the trade war and all I got for it was this lousy T-shirt” top to the US Trade Representative Office or your nearest Chinese embassy. It turns out that you should not be as...
by Andrew Moran | Oct 12, 2019 | Articles, Economic Affairs News, International, Politics, Trade
Domestic financial markets were trading relatively sideways at the end of the trading week. Then, the big news broke: Eighteen months, 13 rounds, and hundreds of tweets later and the US and Chinese governments finally reached some sort of miniature trade deal with...
by Archived Author | Jun 29, 2019 | Articles, Crime & Punishment, Economic Affairs News, Illegal Immigration, Migrant caravan, Politics, Social Issues
During the 2016 election campaign, President Donald Trump promised that Mexico would pay for the wall. Despite massive opposition by the Democrats and some Republicans, he managed to achieve his goal partially through threats of tariffs. Now, it appears he is doing...
by Andrew Moran | Jun 23, 2019 | Articles, Business News, Columns, Economic Affairs News, Media, Politics, Social Issues
Welcome to another installment of Swamponomics: Liberty Nation’s dive into the week’s morass of top news stories and the stream of economic fallacies that have been accepted as conventional wisdom by swamp creatures for years. A Real Steel Tariffs would rejuvenate...
by Mark Angelides | Jun 8, 2019 | Articles, Illegal Immigration, Politics
President Donald Trump has announced that a deal has been struck with Mexico to prevent illegal immigration through the U.S. southern border. Hot on the heels of trade tariff threats, it appears the Mexican government is willing to back up its formerly empty rhetoric...