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Mr. President: Close Down More ‘Advisory Councils’

by Chris Rossini | Aug 20, 2017 | Economics, Featured Articles

So President Trump closed down his "Manufacturing Council" and no one cheered? What a shame. Why was there a "Manufacturing Council" to begin with? It's not the job of the president to meddle with our economy. His job description says nothing about benefiting...

Mr. President: Close Down More 'Advisory Councils'

by Chris Rossini | Aug 20, 2017 | Economics, Featured Articles

What Trump’s Cabinet Meeting Reveals about Government

by Craig Cantoni | Jun 14, 2017 | Blog

You may have seen the video of President Trump’s cabinet meeting. Democrats are atwitter over what they saw as obsequious comments of cabinet members directed at an egotistical president. Republicans are atwitter over what they saw as sincere comments of cabinet...

Trump Mulls Tariffs to Prop Up US Solar Companies

by Eric Schuler | May 30, 2017 | Blog

It's not official yet, but Yahoo! Finance is reporting that the Trump administration is considering putting emergency "safeguard" tariffs on solar panel imports from China. Naturally, the move will be framed as a necessary action to protect US manufacturers from...

Astonishing Explanation for Campus Snowflakes

by Craig Cantoni | Apr 30, 2017 | Blog

In a letter to the editor in the April 27th edition of the Wall Street Journal, a faculty member of Northwestern University explained why snowflakes behave the way they do on college campuses. The letter is pasted at the end of this commentary. In an astonishing...

The Science of Fat vs. the Science of Global Warming

by Craig Cantoni | Mar 22, 2017 | Blog

For over a half-century, the government and those in the medical and science community who fed at its richly nutritious teats of grants and subsidies had declared that it was a scientific fact that dietary fats were a primary cause of heart disease, obesity and...

Negative Balance of Trade? So What?

by Robert Higgs | Mar 18, 2017 | Economics, Featured Articles

The tendency of the USA to have a negative balance of trade (more accurately known as a negative balance on current account) played a prominent role in the recent U.S. presidential campaign. Donald Trump criticized this tendency repeatedly and promised that if elected...

7 Steps Toward a More Sensible Foreign Policy

by Patrick Barron | Mar 15, 2017 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy

For the sake of peace and prosperity in the world, the US should take the true leadership role in proving to the world that free trade and non-interventionism are all that is required. In other words, all nations should simply mind their own business and set good...

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Israel’s Amazing Feat

Israel has accomplished quite a feat: its crimes against the people of Gaza are of such a large scale that they make Hamas's Oct. 7 crimes look small.

Pentagon Follies: Accounting for DEI Expenditures

Inclusion, Equity and Diversity (IED) is communism in blackface. This viral contagion has raced to the top of government bureaucracies and, of course, facilitates a race to the bottom in quality and competence. The wizards at the Pentagon who have yet to account for...

A Soho Forum discussion of COVID with Tom Woods

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fKzl5CngE5Q Check out Tom's great book, Diary of a Psychosis.

US Abrams Tanks Withdrawn from Fighting in Ukraine

Five four million dollar tanks up in smoke. They'll make every excuse they wish but the days of manned tanks are over. Ukraine has lost five Abrams tanks in recent months, The New York Times reported this month, citing an unnamed senior US official. At least three...

The Aircraft Carrier is the Crossbow and Chariot of the Modern Age

The US Navy, of course, is desperately trying to get authorization to build more Ford-class carriers. Ironic that they name the carrier after a violence broker famous for being rather clumsy and unable to navigate around. The first of class doesn't work properly: it...