Trade correspondent L.C. reports: President Trump says he is about to impose $200 bn. in new tariffs on the next tranche of targeted Chinese exports, though the interest rate may be 10%, not the 25% earlier contemplated. Nevertheless, Washington appears to be wary of the response — Chinese and domestic — to new US tariff […]
Summer heat brings out global warming enthusiasts, their Russian allies, and carbon tax Republicans
Summer heat waves predictably bring out swarms of insects, global warming enthusiasts, and their Russian allies. They are now being joined by Republican advocates for a carbon tax. The Green Republicans are marching counter to a major deregulatory move by the Trump administration: “The Environmental Protection Agency and Transportation Department released a plan…to ax the […]
President’s Space Force strongly endorsed by Angelo Codevilla
Missile-defense expert Angelo Codevilla has endorsed President Trump’s call for the formation of a new, sixth military branch, the Space Force. The President, fed up with slow-walking by his military chiefs and their bureaucratic underlings at the Pentagon, announced his proposal on national tv and backed it up subsequently in a Fourth of July message […]
Promising Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s research and the diabetes link
A promising development toward the prevention and cure of Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s disease has been published in the past week. We briefly review this development below. Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s disease: the insulin clue The causation of Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) has stumped medical researchers for decades. The dominant causal factor was assumed to be the amyloid […]
President Trump refutes “big bark, little bite” predictions; angers allies
Trade correspondent L.C. reports: US trade policy announced over the past week has answered the key trade question of the past sixteen months of whether President Trump is “big-bark–little-bite” and would ultimately back off from acting on his protectionist trade policy preferences and his peculiar understanding of how the trading economy works: No. Mexico, Canada, […]
