International trade is one of the many areas in which the Trump administration has been egregiously bad. Trump himself seems to lack even the most basic knowledge about the principle of trade -- he seems to think it is always zero-sum with a loser for every winner --...
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Trump Administration Runs Obamaesque Budget Deficit Over $1 Trillion in 2019
The Trump administration ran an Obamaesque budget deficit of over $1 trillion in the 2019 calendar year. It was the first budget deficit over $1 trillion in any calendar year since 2012. The budget shortfall from January through December totaled $1.02 trillion,...
News Roundup 1/15/20
US News A Mississippi man was arrested, and police failed to confiscate his phone. He later asked one of his jailers to charge his phone. He was then charged with a crime for possessing a phone in jail. He was later convicted of the crime, and a judge sentenced him to...
The Fallout and Lies of the Soleimani Assassination
On FPF #443, I discuss the fallout of the Soleimani assassination and the lies the Trump administration is telling. Trump and his team have had to walk back all their claims that Soleimani was an imminent threat. Now, Pompeo has claimed the decision was made to...
Episode 364: ‘Animating’ What A Voluntary/ANCAP Town Would Look Like
58 Minutes PG-13 Pete invited animator and ANCAP Tomasz Kaye to the show. Tomasz is most famous for his animated, 4-minutes video, "George Ought to Help." Tomasz uses his animation skills to communicate the ideas of voluntaryism and anarcho-capitalism but is also a...
Presidential War Power
"It is, however, insane and intolerable that peace depends on the restraint of the Islamic Republic and an American president given to rage-tweeting war-crime threats," the Cato Institute's Gene Healy, who studies presidential power, writes in "Trump the Decider." "No...
Church Support for War Created Social Justice Rage
“’Saul, why do you persecute me?’ (Acts 22.7). This is the fundamental question. Christian conversion is our discovery that we are persecutors without knowing it. All participation in the scapegoat phenomenon is the same sin of the persecution of Christ. And all human...
Year Zero 92: Soleimani Was An Imminent Threat, But Not To American Lives
The Trump administration has backed off of the narrative that Soleimani was in Baghdad to plot attacks on four American embassies, but they haven't addressed the imminent threat he truly posed. While it's true the Iranian general can't be credibly linked to the deaths...
Subprime Loans Will Be Back with a Vengeance in 2020
One of the lasting legacies of the economic collapse a decade ago is subprime. After lying dormant for several years in the aftermath of the Great Recession, the subprime market has returned with a vengeance. Everything is subprime nowadays, as banks, finance...
The Constitution, War Powers, Congress, and the American Military: A Study of Betrayal
Any conversation about American liberty should begin and end with the false notion that the United States Constitution was written for the purpose of protecting that liberty. The opposite of course is true. This was a document in the form of a contract written by...
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