The weekly trade report with L.C. Last Friday, March 27th, the Wall Street Journal quoted a senior administration official to the effect that “The Trump administration is preparing to suspend collection of import tariffs for three months to give U.S. companies financial relief amid the coronavirus pandemic.” Asked about this at a press conference the […]
China’s coronavirus statistics are phony
by Richard Schulman China’s communist government is trying to recover from the basement level to which its prestige has fallen after causing thousands of deaths worldwide and destroying a world economy in recovery from the 2008 recession. Now it seeks to worm its way back into the world’s good graces by claiming that it has […]
Déjà vu
Is there not an eerie resemblance between this photo from contemporary Wuhan, China: and this photo capturing an event in a neighboring province 2,100 years earlier? Two millenia, two hated totalitarian emperors. The Chinese people deserve better. So does the rest of the world, now suffering from a plague visited upon it by the new […]
President and Navarro against tariff relief as stimulus
The weekly trade column with correspondent L.C. Both President Trump and his trade adviser Peter Navarro are against the use of tariff relief as a stimulus to stem the economic decline that the coronavirus epidemic has caused. After the president dismissed the mounting number of demands for removing his unilateral tariffs, late on March 20th […]
Nature dominates climate
by Richard Schulman Recent studies are reinforcing the view that nature still dominates climate, not the CO2 generated by human combustion of fossil fuels. The studies center around two questions: Can the warming that has taken place since the 19th century be explained by natural causes rather than CO2 emissions from fossil fuel combustion? If […]
