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Foreign Policy Focus #163 – Trump’s Tariffs and Putin’s Missiles

by Kyle Anzalone | Mar 5, 2018 | Conflicts of Interest

On FPF #163, I discuss several events occurring around the world. Trump has proposed new steal and aluminum tariffs. Putin announces that Russia has developed nuclear-armed cruise missiles. At the UN, the US is looking to punish North Korea and Assad. I also update...

Foreign Policy Focus #163 – Trump's Tariffs and Putin's Missiles

by Kyle Anzalone | Mar 5, 2018 | Conflicts of Interest

TGIF: The Voice of American Workers Is a Charlatan

by Sheldon Richman | Jan 25, 2018 | Economics, Featured Articles, Sheldon Richman, TGIF

Donald Trump, the self-proclaimed voice of American working people, has decreed that the prices of washing machines and solar panels shall rise. So it is written. So it is done. Trump's decree, placing tariffs (taxes) on imported versions of those goods, will impose...

Freedom, Protectionism, and Pipe Tobacco

by Sheldon Richman | Jan 25, 2018 | Blog, Economics

One of my haunts is a local tobacco shop, where I regularly drop in to smoke a few bowls of fine pipe tobacco and talk to a fine group of friends and acquaintances. I go there to relax, which is what pipe smoking is all about, but part of yesterday's visit was...

Sometimes I Love the Trump Effect–Solar Tariff Edition

by Eric Schuler | Jan 23, 2018 | Blog

The Trump Effect is what causes millions of moderate and left-of-center Americans to immediately take the opposite position of President Trump whenever he makes a new decision. The issues in question are often obscure, but the popular center-left positions that emerge...

The Antiwar Comic: The Korea Situation

by Tony DiGerolamo | Jan 13, 2018 | Blog

Why must we butt-in to everyone's situation?! Can we never NOT make it about us?! For more comics, visit The Webcomic Factory.

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