Trade correspondent L.C. reports: An economic summit of world leaders held in Papua New Guinea ended in acrimony yesterday, the Wall Street Journal reported today, “as a fight over Chinese trade practices cast doubt over the ability of Washington and Beijing to resolve their trade battle soon. For the first time in the Asia-Pacific Economic […]
Trade in split Congress likely to be bipartisan but protectionist
Trade correspondent L.C. reports: In the wake of the highly partisan US midterm elections, trade is one of the few areas where bipartisanship is possible. Most observers believe that Congress will pass the US-Canada-Mexico (USMCA, a.k.a. NAFTA 2.0) implementing bill during 2019. It is also likely that Congress will approve the start of trade talks […]
Has fusion power’s “SpaceX” moment arrived?
The search for fusion power, long the exclusive precinct of deep-pocketed governments moving at glacial speeds, is now going commercial. That’s as promising a development for the early delivery of working fusion power reactors as commercialization proved for the decoding of the human genome and space travel. The late Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen “was among […]
Business investment stagnating in face of trade uncertainty
“The U.S. economy expanded at a 3.5 percent pace in the third quarter as consumers opened their wallets, businesses restocked inventories and governments boosted spending, marking the strongest back-to-back quarters of growth since 2014,” Bloomberg writes. The growth “followed a 4.2 percent advance in the prior three months…” But sustained growth and productivity gains require […]
On Halloween, Progressives give rein to their inner ghoul
Dateline Halloween 2015 Dateline Halloween 2018 We don’t know why Megyn Kelly cried and apologized to the morons at NBC for having defended childhood Halloween playfulness. She should exit the place with a huge exit package, a smile on her face, and the tougher for the experience.
