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President Trump’s Best of Weeks, Worst of Weeks

April 14, 2018 by Richard Schulman Leave a Comment

Vice President Pence with Canada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau after meeting at the Summit of the Americas in Lima, Peru, Saturday, April 14, 2018.

It was President Trump’s best of weeks and his worst of weeks. It was his best of weeks in that The President instantly won the hearts of conservative Republicans by pardoning Scooter Libby, the innocent casualty of a previous lawless Special Counsel, Lawrence Walsh. President George W. Bush should have pardoned Libby but didn’t; The […]

Filed Under: the Presidency  Tagged: Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), CPTPP (new 11-nation TPP), George W. Bush, Mick Mulvaney, Mike Pence, NAFTA, Scooter Libby, Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP), welfare reform

Trump administration split over goal of tariffs vs Chinese imports

April 10, 2018 by Richard Schulman 1 Comment

A Chinese Cambricon 1-A chip optimized for artificial intelligence

L.C.’s weekly trade report follows. Diminish Chinese trade surplus or its hi tech industrial policy? April 10th — The Trump administration is internally split regarding the goal of its $50 bn. in threatened Section 301 tariffs against Chinese imports. Some officials want to win concessions from the Chinese that would bring down the bilateral trade […]

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Winter and spring colder than usual? Here’s why

April 5, 2018 by Richard Schulman 2 Comments

Today the sun's surface has no visible sunspots.

Winter and spring colder than usual? The NY Daily News, among others, thinks so: The Daily News has no clue as to why this is happening. But those who have read Henri Svensmark and Nigel Calder’s The Chilling Stars: A New Theory of Climate Change or good summaries do. The solar wind — plasma flares from […]

Filed Under: Climate  Tagged: auroras, climate, Henrik Svensmark, solar wind, sunspots

China retaliates against US with tariffs hitting Midwest farmers

April 2, 2018 by Richard Schulman Leave a Comment

An Iowa pig farm that ships breeding stock to China

Founders Broadsheet trade correspondent L.C. reports: Late Sunday April 1st, China announced that effective immediately it will be imposing tariffs of 25% on eight US exports, including pork, and 15% on one hundred and twenty other US exports, including fruits. This is China’s response to President Trump’s Section 232 (defense-related) steel and aluminum tariffs announced […]

Filed Under: Trade  Tagged: Canada, China, European Union, Japan, Korean-US Trade Agreement (KORUS), National Trade Estimate (NTE), South Korea, WTO

China’s totalitarian dictatorship under Chairman Xi aims for world domination

April 1, 2018 by Richard Schulman 1 Comment

Pope Francis blesses the crowd in St. Peters Square on Easter day

The Passover and Easter season hold out hope for peace on earth. “Today we implore fruits of peace,” Pope Francis said to the crowd assembled in St. Peters’ Square for the pontiff’s traditional Urbi et Orbi (“To the City and World”) Easter address. Unfortunately an older Roman adage will need to be the guide in […]

Filed Under: China  Tagged: Falun Gong, Legalism, Qin Shihuang, Steven Mosher

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