Trade correspondent L.C. writes: The meeting between Presidents Donald Trump and Xi Jinping at the Group of 20 (G20) meeting in Buenos Aires resulted in the outcome predicted just before the event: the US will delay for 90 days its planned January 1st hike from 10% to 25% of the tariffs currently imposed on $200 […]
Bad governments create externalities, a.k.a. refugees
Bad governments produce refugees, hundreds of thousands of them — fleeing for their lives, livelihoods, or both. The US is by no means alone in facing unwanted crowds of refugees heading for its borders. For some countries under some circumstances, refugees can be a boon. Europe’s refugees who came to US shores in the 19th […]
What would a great US statesman now do?
Our ally in multiple recent wars, the United Kingdom, is now paralyzed over its attempt to make an acceptable exit from the bureaucracy-encumbered European Union (EU). President Trump applauded this exit (“Brexit”) when it was first proposed, and he applauded the surge of British patriotism that supported it. The US President could now commit a […]
Why John and Jill can’t major in science
In a previous Founders Broadsheet we addressed the question of why so many US students were never properly taught how to read, crippling their lifelong academic and intellectual development. An even larger number of US high school graduates– perhaps more than 95 percent — never receive an adequate mathematics education during their kindergarten-through-12th (K-12) grade […]
Is the United States going to pot?
Our northern neighbor Canada has just gone to pot. The US will likely be heading further in that direction on Tuesday, Nov. 6th. Yahoo reports that “Three states — Michigan, Utah and Oklahoma — will hold referendums in 2018 on the legalization of marijuana for recreational and medical use, continuing a nationwide trend of acceptance […]
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