By trade correspondent L.C. and the editor What is one to conclude from the overwhelming victory of pro-democracy candidates in Sunday’s Hong Kong municipal elections and the publication last week in the Western press of Chinese Communist internal documents revealing the party’s incarceration of one to two million of its own Muslim population in Xinjiang? […]
Is inequality a big problem? Will Progressives make it worse?
by Richard Schulman Economics columnist and editor John Tamny notes that inequality has surged since 1989 but so has the quality of life for most people. Might there be a connection? Would we have had the benefits of the internet, personal computers, smart phones, and automation without the entrepreneurship and wealth accumulation among the few […]
Chile and the importance of ideas
by Richard Schulman Developments in Chile underline the importance of ideas, an insight that needs to be taken up by President Trump and congressional Republicans no less than by Chile’s president, Sebastián Piñera. Chile has the highest standard of living of any country in Latin America and is on the verge of becoming Latin America’s […]
Sometimes governments get it right, just not California
by Richard Schulman Three exemplary government actions took place in the past week — two by the Trump administration and one by Indonesia’s Transportation Safety Committee. First, the Trump administration and Pentagon awarded a lucrative and security-critical cloud storage contract to Microsoft rather than Jeff Bezos’s Amazon-Washington Post enterprise, which has been a repeat conduit […]
Trump ok’s small China trade deal but Hong Kong wants US guarantees
The weekly trade report by L.C. US and Chinese negotiators reached – by the US account – a limited, partial trade agreement when they met in Washington on October 11th for their 13th negotiating round. As President Trump told reporters, “We’ve come to a very substantial phase one deal, subject to getting it written.” He […]
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