October 8, 2024

Common sense: Trump’s contribution to economics

Some economic experts haven’t yet caught up with President Trump’s contribution to economic theory. During the Vice Presidential debate, JD Vance explained that Trump’s economic plans were simply “common sense”: A l...

March 2, 2023

Look at the data: Trump’s trade agenda would increase middle class income

On February 27, President Trump announced the “lynchpin” of his Strategic National Manufacturing Initiative which he designed in order to bring trade toward balance during his second term by bringing back U.S. manufacturing. The spee...

January 12, 2023

Swiss National Bank's currency manipulations didn't pay off last year

ZeroHedge reports that the Swiss National Bank (SNB) lost a huge amount in the value of its assets last year.  Like other governments, which manipulate exchange rates, it has been buying foreign assets for years in order to keep the exchang...

January 11, 2022

The Senate should reject Jerome Powell

Today, the Senate Banking Committee is holding a hearing on whether Federal Reserve chair Jerome Powell should be awarded a second four-year term.  The Senate should reject the nomination. As we explained on April 26, Powell doesn...

April 26, 2021

Jerome Powell and the Coming Inflation

Usually, the Federal Reserve acts as a counterweight when Congress and U.S. presidents follow inflationary policies. We haven’t had an incompetent Federal Reserve chairman since Arthur Burns and G. William Miller produced simultaneous inflation...

April 6, 2020

A Solution to COVID-19 Is in Sight!

A solution to the COVID-19 epidemic is in sight.  It is the combo used by South Korea, where people are back at work, to successfully stem its COVID-19 outbreak.  It has three parts: (1) greatly expanded testing of those who ...

March 22, 2020

Stop slow-walking synthetic vaccines! Our bureaucracy is killing us!

The world is entering an economic recession and health crisis partly due to the continuing lack of imagination and capability among experts in the bureaucracy. Perhaps these supposed experts are suffering from a disease first named by C. Northcote Pa...

October 28, 2019

Balanced Trade advocate Raymond Richman dies at age 101

One of the first advocates of balanced trade, Dr. Raymond L. Richman, died on October 23 at age 101.  A commentary that he wrote in 2003 ("The Great Trade Debate") recommended the very policy that President Trump is carrying out t...