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# Founders Broadsheet

Reviving the classical-liberal republic

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## Posts

- [Many climate scientists reject the Democrats' fossil-fuel alarmism](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/many-climate-scientists-reject-the-democrats-fossil-fuel-alarmism/) - Many scientists reject fossil-fuel alarmism, saying either that CO2 doesn't drive climate change or does so much less than what the UN claims.
- [Trump has become a danger to the republic](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/trump-has-become-a-danger-to-the-republic/)
- [Trump in November; new party afterwards](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/trump-in-november-new-party-afterwards/)
- [Foreign Policy and the President](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/data-suggests-that-on-foreign-policy-voters-prefer-decisiveness-over-specific-policy-issues-this-could-favor-trump-as-the-lesser-of-two-evils-candidate-hes-also-arguably-more-of-a-threat-to-democr/)
- [New Classical-Liberal Third Party Needed](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/new-classical-liberal-third-party-needed/)
- [Radical Environmentalists Created Two World-Historic Disasters](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/radical-environmentalists-created-two-world-historic-disasters/)
- [Taiwan's defense is in US national interest](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/taiwans-defense-is-in-us-national-interest/) - Taiwan is central to the first island chain that blocks the Chinese navy from dominating Asia. Its defense is a vital US national interest.
- [Could a devastating surprise attack happen again?](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/could-a-surprise-attack-on-the-us-happen-again/) - Pearl Harbor's military and intelligence failure had been forgotten by 9/11, but little has changed, leaving, the US open to a worse surprise.
- [Founders' negative rights vs. progressives' positive rights (entitlements)](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/founders-negative-rights-vs-progressives-postive-entitlement-rights/)
- [Biden’s Green Energy Policy Should Be Suspended During Crisis](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/bidens-green-energy-policy-should-be-suspended-during-crisis/) - Suspend Biden's green policy. It fuels inflation, is pro-Putin, and bad science. Warmth dominates earth's climate history and CO2 doesn't.
- [The Biden administration’s urgent need for a reset](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/the-biden-administrations-urgent-need-for-a-reset/) - President Biden needs to drop his inflationary Green and welfare-state spending and redirect the money to restoring US military preeminence.
- [Surprise: US accepts WTO olive ruling favoring EU](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/surprise-us-accepts-wto-olive-ruling-favoring-eu/) - The US accepted a WTO ruling brought by the EU on behalf of Spanish olive producers, but US and EU farm protectionism remains a disgrace.
- [Allies keep trade alive without Biden administration help](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/allies-keep-trade-alive-without-biden-administration-help/) - Japan resists the managed trade deal the US forced on the EU, while Republicans target Commerce Secretary Raimondo as too Beijing-friendly.
- [EU moves toward adopting “Anti-Coercion Instrument”](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/eu-moves-toward-adopting-anti-coercion-instrument/) - The EU is proposing an Anti-Coercion Instrument (ACI) so that it can deter or retaliate against a country threatening one of its members.
- [At last, a WTO success: services liberalization](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/at-last-a-wto-success-services-liberalization/) - A WTO achievement at last: a services liberalization agreement important tothe US has just been reached. Talks on China are also underway.
- [Biden vs Canada; AMLO vs the US](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/biden-vs-canada-amlo-vs-the-us/) - World trade and the Indo-Pacific aside, the Biden administration has problems closer to home with both Canada and Mexico.
- [Biden admin dysfunctional trade policy finds few amigos abroad or at home](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/biden-admin-dysfunctional-trade-policy-finds-few-amigos-abroad-or-at-home/) - Two Biden admin trade flops: the Raimondo-Tai Pacific tour and the "Three Amigos" meeting with Canada and Mexico's chiefs over EV subsidies
- [US-Japan steel-aluminum tariff talks start but LDCs fear US-EU carbon border adjustment plans](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/us-japan-steel-aluminum-tariff-talks-start-but-ldcs-fear-us-eu-carbon-border-adjustment-plans/) - US-Japan Section 232 (steel, aluminum) tariff talks start, but US-EU carbon border adjustment tariffs feared by China, developing countries.
- [Administration favors costly welfare and climate policies over US trade and allies](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/administration-favors-costly-welfare-and-climate-policies-over-us-trade-and-allies/) - The Biden administration is pursuing unpopular entitlement and climate programs while neglecting US industry, farmers, and strategic allies.
- [Deal finalized to lift US steel and aluminum tariffs, cancel EU retaliation](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/deal-finalized-to-lift-us-steel-and-aluminum-tariffs-cancel-eu-retaliation/) - This week: US-EU tariff deal, e-car subsidy trouble in USMCA, G20 approves 15% tax, and US president attends Asia summits after 3 year lapse.
- [Government & unions to blame for supply-chain crisis, truck driver shortage](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/government-unions-to-blame-for-supply-chain-crisis-truck-driver-shortage/) - Government and unions prevent truckers from getting to the ports to remove the containers. Shortages result; tariffs add to the price rises.
- [USTR Katherine Tai tells WTO that trade is about other things than trade](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/ustr-katherine-tai-tells-wto-that-trade-is-about-other-things-than-trade/) - USTR Katherine Tai told WTO officials last week that US policy for the WTO wasn't about trade but equity, the environment, worker protection.
- [Biden-Yellen global tax plan will damage US prosperity](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/biden-yellen-global-tax-plan-will-damage-us-prosperity/) - The Biden-Yellen-OECD tax plan will make US investment more costly than elsewhere, lose jobs, and lower living standards for 80% of taxpayers
- [US Trade Rep Tai's major policy speech a major disappointment](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/us-trade-rep-tais-major-policy-speech-a-major-disappointment/) - USTR Tai's US-China trade policy speech at CSIS was a big disappointment, but the US and EU held promising trade talks at Pittsburg and in DC.
- [US Meng release, CPTPP boycott make life easier for China](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/us-meng-release-cptpp-boycott-make-life-easier-for-china/) - US release of Huawei's Meng without trial and continued US boycott of CPTPP send wrong signal to a China continuing to steal patents and IP.
- [The Newsom recall effort was not in vain](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/the-newsom-recall-effort-was-not-in-vain/) - California's dysfunctions and its Democrat Party of the rich got a brief scare in the Newsom recall election. Republicans should keep at it.
- [China tries to counter AUKUS setback with CPTPP application](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/china-tries-to-counter-aukus-setback-with-cptpp-application/) - Shocked by Australia's announcement it would build a nuclear submarine fleet with US-UK aid, China is trying to recoup by joining the CPTPP.
- [White House contemplates new Section 301 action against China](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/white-house-contemplates-new-section-301-action-against-china/) - The Biden administration is considering Section 301 action against China over its industrial subsidies but faces criticism for its own plans.
- [Climate, absurdities, and the Democrats](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/climate-absurdities-and-the-democrats/) - Majorities sometimes back absurd theories and persecute the dissenting minority. When government backs the majority, atrocities can follow.
- [Japan, Europe resist China's demands they shun Taiwan](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/japan-europe-resist-chinas-demands-they-shun-taiwan/) - Japan and Europe stand up against China's demands that they shun Taiwan, as Congress moves to wrest rare-earth and magnet monopoly from China.
- [Trade "must take a back seat," Blinken says](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/trade-must-take-a-back-seat-blinken-says/) - The Biden admin is as indifferent to US trade interests as it was to Afghanistan, provoking anger over tariffs, Dem plans for border CO2 tax.
- [Pacific allies urge US to re-engage through digital trade deal](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/pacific-allies-urge-us-to-re-engage-through-digital-trade-deal/) - Pacific allies are urging the US to play a bigger trade role in the region by joining an existing digital trade agreement, then perhaps CPTPP.
- [Biden's "Buy American" program makes him the second coming of Trump](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/bidens-buy-american-program-makes-him-the-second-coming-of-trump/) - The Biden administration is expanding Trump's protectionist measures, such as "Buy American," in the hope of buying the 2022 elections.
- [A beneficial US-Vietnam currency settlement](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/a-beneficial-us-vietnam-currency-settlement/) - With the settlement of US charges of currency manipulation against Vietnam, a tariff war between the two trade partners has been avoided.
- [EU's CBAM and Fit for 55 hurt business, consumers, and trade partners](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/eus-cbam-and-fit-for-55-hurt-business-consumers-and-trade-partners/) - The EU's "Fit for 55" green climate plan features a carbon border adjustment mechanism (CBAM) that will hurt business, consumers, and trade.
- [Yellen-Biden victory lap for G20 global tax hike is premature](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/yellen-biden-victory-lap-for-g20-global-tax-hike-is-premature/) - G20 approval of the Biden-Yellen promoted global minimum 15% corporate tax and digital services tax settlement may not survive legislatures.
- [Biden admin: neglect world trade, increase world taxes](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/biden-admin-neglect-world-trade-increase-world-taxes/) - To China's benefit, Biden admin lets Trade Promotion Authority lapse and continues Trump tariffs on allies and boycott of WTO's Appelate Body.
- [Taiwan and the TPP get renewed attention](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/taiwan-and-the-tpp-get-renewed-attention/) - Despite Senate and allied pressure and a favorable WTO review, the Biden admin still resists joining the TPP but is moving closer to Taiwan.
- [Boeing-Airbus trade truce concluded but China overproduction worries continue](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/boeing-airbus-trade-truce-concluded-but-china-overproduction-worries-continue/) - A Boeing-Airbus-trade truce has been concluded, but allies still worry about renewed Chinese overproduction of steel and other goods.
- [Three admin blunders: G7 Summit, Putin meet, supply-chain review](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/three-admin-blunders-g7-summit-putin-meet-supply-chain-review/) - G7 meet adopts growth-hostile taxes and energy policies; Biden admin pushes "Buy America" protectionism in name of supply chain security.
- [At G7 meet, Biden administration moves to give tax sovereignty to OECD](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/at-g7-meet-biden-administration-moves-to-give-tax-sovereignty-to-oecd/) - The G7 deal for a 15% minimum global tax and taxation by country not headquarters is a Biden step toward OECD tax sovereignty over the US.
- [Multiple China abuses, Swiss sovereignty, Canadian dairy quotas, and US tire tariffs](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/multiple-china-abuses-swiss-sovereignty-canadian-dairy-quotas-and-us-tire-tariffs/) - US actions vs China trade abuses, including fisheries; Swiss sovereignty vs EU; US on Canadian dairy quotas & E Asia tire imports
- [China on the outs with US Congress, EU Parliament](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/china-on-the-outs-with-us-congress-eu-parliament/) - China is inspiring bipartisan anti-Beijing bills in Congress and a landslide European Parliament vote to freeze an EU trade bill with China.
- [Congress grills USTR Tai on US Trans-Pacific Partnership absence, vaccine rights giveaway](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/congress-grills-ustr-tai-on-us-trans-pacific-partnership-absence-vaccine-rights-giveaway/) - US Trade Rep Katherine Tai was hard put to defend before congressional committees the US absence from the TPP and the vaccine patent giveaway
- [Unsettled: What climate science tells us and what it doesn't](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/unsettled-what-climate-science-tells-us-and-what-it-doesnt/) - Steven Koonin’s new book, Unsettled, is essential reading for an informed judgment on the most important scientific issue of this decade.
- [Biden administration somersaults on TRIPS (patent waivers)](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/biden-administration-somersaults-on-trips-patent-waivers/) - Biden administration reverses previous opposition, endorses TRIPS proposal to waive patents for COVID-19 vaccines. Battle over details likely.
- [The Biden administration's love affair with Trump's tariffs](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/the-biden-administrations-love-affair-with-trumps-tariffs/) - The Biden administration is keeping Trump's tariffs, has no trade policy, backs high-tax states at the OECD, and neglects its Pacific allies.
- [US, lacking trade policy, concedes field to China](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/us-lacking-trade-policy-concedes-field-to-china/) - The Biden administration is making a fatal foreign policy error in having no trade strategy with which to counter China internationally.
- [The Biden tax and spending program will destroy the American economy](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/the-biden-tax-and-spending-program-will-destroy-the-american-economy/) - The Biden tax program can't pay off the huge debt the administration is incurring. Corporate investment will suffer, as will workers' income.
- [Shared China concerns trump trade in US-Japan heads-of-state meeting](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/shared-china-concerns-trump-trade-in-us-japan-heads-of-state-meeting/) - Shared China concerns trump trade in US-Japan leaders' meeting, but green energy focus will dominate US trade policy, not trade expansion.
- [Bipartisan agreement on batteries, China, but OECD battle ahead](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/bipartisan-agreement-on-batteries-china-but-oecd-battle-ahead/) - Bipartisan action on electric battery dispute, Menendez China bill; rare court win vs Section 232 tariffs, but battle likely on OECD talks
- [Allies want unity vs China but Biden admin fixated on domestic bills](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/allies-want-unity-vs-china-but-biden-admin-fixated-on-domestic-bills/) - First G7 trade ministers meet held. China on outs with EU, US. Biden admin neglecting trade growth for contradictory American Jobs Act goals.
- [There is no climate crisis; nature dominates, not fossil fuels](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/there-is-no-climate-crisis-nature-dominates-not-fossil-fuels/) - There is no climate crisis. That's a progressive hoax. Fossil fuel's contribution to warming is minor. Nature dominates Earth's temperature.
- [Will China's "wolf warrior" diplomacy over its Uyghur policy backfire?](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/will-chinas-wolf-warrior-diplomacy-over-its-uyghur-policy-backfire/) - China is threatening Western countries and companies with severe sanctions if they side with Uyghurs in boycotting Xinjiang cotton.
- [Trade opportunities thwarted by bipartisan protectionism](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/trade-opportunities-thwarted-by-bipartisan-protectionism/) - Bipartisan protectionism is thwarting trade opportunities in Central America, Pacific, and Europe, but CP-KSC rail merger is first USMCA r.r.
- [ARPA: corrupting the electorate with free money](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/arpa-corrupting-the-electorate-with-free-money/) - Democrats intend ARPA to reward supporters, corrupt voters with free money to win in 2022, and move a giant step closer to universal welfare.
- [Does the semiconductor industry need government subsidies?](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/does-the-semiconductor-industry-need-government-subsidies/) - The US semiconductor industry and auto companies are pushing for subsidies to end a chip shortage threatening $61 bn in lost car sales.
- [Australia's Cormann wins OECD race; Greens unhappy](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/australias-cormann-wins-oecd-race-greens-unhappy/) - Cormann elected new OECD Sec'y-Gen'l. Climate warriors unhappy. Quad-related meetings address vaccines, China threat. EU border tax a worry.
- [US, UK, and EU suspend Airbus-Boeing tariff wars](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/us-uk-and-eu-suspend-airbus-boeing-tariff-wars/) - US, UK, and EU suspend airplane tariff wars. Dispute with OECD also suspended; but vaccine controversies at WTO and with Russian intelligence.
- [Inactive sun leads to prediction of colder winters](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/inactive-sun-leads-to-prediction-of-colder-winters/) - A new theory relating the sun's changing activity levels to climate on earth undercuts global warming alarmism and the Biden green programs.
- [Protectionist USTR-designate Tai gets bipartisan pass](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/protectionist-ustr-designate-tai-gets-bipartisan-pass/) - Protectionist USTR-designate Tai faces softball questions during confirmation hearings. Supply chain review launched. UK trade talks snubbed.
- [New trade policies proposed by EU, in US, and at WTO](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/new-trade-policies-proposed-by-eu-in-us-and-at-wto/) - The EU declares independence, won't coordinate vs Russia and China. The US debates tech decoupling from China. The WTO elects a new leader.
- [FDR’s Failed New Deal and Biden’s Retread](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/fdrs-failed-new-deal-and-bidens-retread/) - FDR's New Deal wage policies condemned millions of poor people to permanent unemployment during the Great Depression. Biden is imitating FDR.
- [The Feb. 1-7, 2021 roundup of major trade developments](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/the-feb-1-7-2021-roundup-of-major-trade-developments/) - Biden admin ok's Okonjo-Iweala for top WTO post; Canada unhappy with Biden, US with Mex's AMLO; China seeks tech standards domination to spy.
- [The false science behind the Biden green program](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/the-false-science-behind-the-biden-green-program/) - The Biden admin's green climate program is unscientific. Little warming will occur even if present CO2 levels double from 400 ppm to 800 ppm.
- [UK to apply for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP) membership](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/uk-to-apply-for-trans-pacific-partnership-cptpp-membership/) - The UK seeks free trade agreements with the CPTPP and US, but Biden imitates Trump protectionism with his Buy American and Jones Act orders.
- [Biden trade policy: meet new boss, worse than old boss](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/biden-trade-policy-meet-new-boss-worse-than-old-boss/) - Biden trade policy continues Trump's protectionism: Buy American, domestic-content rules, cheap dollar, tariffs, subsidies, no TPP, no allies
- [The Republican way forward](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/the-republican-way-forward/) - Trump's denunciation of Georgia Republican officials and his discouraging Republicans from voting in the runoffs gave Democrats the Senate.
- [Outgoing administration binds incoming one only on China trade](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/outgoing-administration-binds-incoming-one-only-on-china-trade/) - The outgoing administration put trade sanctions on China but left the incoming administration to decide on Vietnam currency and digital taxes
- [Commerce Secretary nomination rounds out Biden trade team](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/commerce-secretary-nomination-rounds-out-biden-trade-team/) - Biden nominates RI governor Raimondo, a moderate Democrat, as Commerce Secretary. Also: US actions on Vietnam, China, and India trade issues.
- [Teachers Unions: Anti-Heroes of the Pandemic](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/teachers-unions-anti-heroes-of-the-pandemic/) - Pandemic school closings and online learning have been a disaster for children. Teachers unions have been opposing a return to classrooms.
- [This was the trade year that was](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/this-was-the-trade-year-that-was/) - At year's end, the UK exited the EU; China concluded a trade agreement with the EU, and the Trump administration made a puzzling WTO request.
- [Relief at UK-EU Agreement, But Whither the EU Now?](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/relief-at-uk-eu-agreement-but-whither-the-eu-now/) - The UK has its Brexit deal and the EU its intimidated 27 remainer nations. But the Biden admin may not find as friendly an EU as hoped for.
- [Biden’s Green Gift to Beijing’s Reds](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/bidens-green-gift-to-beijings-reds/) - President-elect Biden’s green makeover of US economy will be a gift to China’s rulers by weakening the US economically and militarily.
- [International resistance to China grows](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/international-resistance-to-china-grows/) - US blocks Chinese access to more defense-related US technologies as international resistance to China grows and interest in CPTPP revives.
- [US-China reset? Probably not](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/us-china-reset-probably-not/) - China hopes for a reset with the incoming admininstration. Biden's USTR choice, Katharine Tai, is charged with defending US trade interests.
- [Biden admin and Wall Street to create green economy through credit policy](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/biden-admin-and-wall-street-to-create-green-economy-through-credit-policy/) - Ignoring uncertain climate science, the Biden Treasury, Fed, and Wall St plan a shift to a carbon-free green economy through credit policy.
- [Opposition to China goes bipartisan and international](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/opposition-to-china-goes-bipartisan-and-international/) - Congress passes bipartisan bill to de-list Chinese companies not meeting US requirements. China threatens potential allies of US, Australia.
- [Will US withdraw from Government Procurement Agreement?](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/will-us-withdraw-from-government-purchase-agreement/) - Administration considers withdrawal from Government Procurement Agreement and forming coalition to counter Chinese bullying of single nations
- [To manage China, a bipartisan call for mending ties with allies](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/to-manage-china-a-bipartisan-call-for-mending-ties-with-allies/) - Separate Republican, Democratic, and State Department reports all call for mending ties with allies to better manage relations with China.
- [Green New Deal fails cost-benefit analysis](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/green-new-deal-fails-cost-benefit-analysis/) - The Green New Deal fails any rational cost-benefit analysis, even if atmospheric CO2 is as serious a threat as alarmists believe it to be.
- [Western Pacific powers sign RCEP free trade pact](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/western-pacific-powers-sign-rcep-free-trade-pact/) - Conclusion of RCEP increases China's influence as Trump administration neglects its western Pacific trade partners
- [Corrupt media declare Biden president](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/corrupt-media-declare-biden-president/) - Democrats tried to make the election less secure. President Trump's challenge to state vote results is supported by Republican leaders.
- [Modest trade policy changes expected if Biden elected](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/modest-trade-policy-changes-expected-if-biden-elected/) - Trade policy is likely to change if Biden is confirmed as president-elect but probably not as much as free-trade advocates had been hoping.
- [US at war with WTO over Okonjo-Iweala as director-general](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/us-at-war-with-wto-over-okonjo-iweala-as-director-general/) - We suggest why the Trump administration is at war with most of the WTO membersship over Okonjo-Iweala as the WTO's next director-general.
- [False scare stories fuel the Green New Deal](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/false-scare-stories-fuel-the-green-new-deal/) - Journalists hype the Green New Deal with false scare stories of species extinctions, rising seas, forest fires, etc., caused by fossil fuels.
- [Pandemic Trade War or Great GAFA Tax Heist?](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/pandemic-trade-war-or-great-gafa-tax-heist/) - France, with EU backing, has mobilized a dubious tax revolt against the US "GAFA" internet companies. Now the OECD is also involved.
- [Conflict with EU likely in 2nd Trump administration](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/conflict-with-eu-likely-in-2nd-trump-administration/) - It's crunch time for US-EU aircraft and DST disputes; Japan joins US-Brazil proposed WTO reforms; farmers now on government dole big-time.
- [The Green New Deal: Part 1 (Context)](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/the-green-new-deal-part-1-context/) - The Democratic Party's anti-fossil fuel program -- the Green New Deal -- will prevent the world's poor and developing nations from achieving the standard of living enjoyed by the US and other developed countries. The GND will also weaken the US strategically vis-à-vis China and Russia, thus threatening the independence and survival of democratic nations.
- [US rejects EU’s “Farm to Fork” initiative](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/us-rejects-eus-farm-to-fork-initiative/) - US warns EU its "Farm to Fork" initiative will hurt EU farmers, double prices, and aggravate US-EU trade conflicts. Also: deficits and Quad.
- [Nature dominates climate](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/nature-dominates-climate/) - Contrary to Progressive claims that "the science is settled," recent papers argue that nature dominates climate, not anthropogenic CO2.
- [Xi’s Plan for Full Control of Private Sector](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/xis-plan-for-full-control-of-private-sector/) - Xi Jinping's CP tightens grip on private sector, provokes US to secure critical supplies chains while neglecting interests of allies and WTO.
- [Thousands of companies join Section 301 court challenge](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/thousands-of-companies-join-section-301-court-challenge/) - The administration faces court challenges over its anti-China Section 301 tariffs, its ban on WeChat, and its ever-changing TikTok deals.
- [Administration trade setbacks](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/administration-trade-setbacks/) - Trump has suffered trade setbacks for his 301 and aluminum tariffs; criticism for his TikTok meddling and Commerce's treatment of importers.
- [The destruction of the black family by progressives](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/the-destruction-of-the-black-family-by-progressives/) - America's black underclass exists not because of systemic racism but because Democratic welfare programs destroyed the black family.
- [Biden-Harris campaign releases its tax and trade plan](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/biden-harris-campaign-releases-its-tax-and-trade-plan/) - The Biden-Harris presidential campaign released its trade and tax plan. Its populist flavor mirrors President Trump's trade pronouncements.
- [US multilateralism in Asia, protectionism in the Americas](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/us-multilateralism-in-asia-protectionism-in-the-americas/) - Besides autonomy, the Trump administration is pursuing strategic multilateralism in the Pacific and more trade protectionism in the Americas.
- [In lumber dispute, WTO sides with Canada](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/in-lumber-dispute-wto-sides-with-canada/) - This week: US trade with Canada (lumber), Vietnam (tires), Brazil (steel), and Taiwan (FTA); Republicans; Japan-India-Australia supply talks
- [Administration concedes failure of bilateral pacts](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/administration-concedes-failure-of-bilateral-trade-pact-policy/) - Bilateral pacts have long been the administration's trade policy, but not any longer, according to admin trade rep Robert Liighthizer.
- [With Kamala Harris, SF Democrats increase hold on Democratic Party](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/with-kamala-harris-sf-democrats-increase-hold-on-democratic-party/) - With Biden's selection of Kamala Harris as running mate, the "San Francisco Democrats" have increased their hold on the Democratic party.
- [Latest US trade developments with China, Taiwan, Canada, and Europe](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/latest-us-trade-developments-with-china-taiwan-canada-and-europe/) - China and US are keeping Phase One alive. Taiwan wants an FTA with US. Aluminum and lumber tariffs hurting both US and Canadians.
- [Aluminum tariff re-imposition opens protectionist-themed election campaign](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/aluminum-tariff-re-imposition-opens-protectionist-themed-election-campaign/) - Trump's 10% aluminum tariff on ally Canada will hurt US manufacturers and consumers, unlike his measures against Chinese hardware and apps.
- [Progressive media are suppressing Covid-19 treatment information](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/progressive-media-are-suppressing-covid-19-cure-information/) - Doctors in the US and abroad are successfully treating early-phase Covid-19 patients with pharmaceuticals approved for other medical uses.
- [Congress writing pro-Taiwan, anti-China bills](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/congress-writing-pro-taiwan-anti-china-bills/) - Congress is writing bills to discourage China from attacking Taiwan and to make the US economy less dependent on Chinese manufactures.
- [President Trump channels Speaker Pelosi](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/president-trump-channels-speaker-pelosi/) - President Trump is adopting policies championed by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. This bodes ill for his own campaign and the Republican Party.
- [EU seeks WTO Airbus-Boeing settlement](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/eu-seeks-wto-airbus-boeing-settlement/) - If the US and EU can settle their 16-year-old Airbus-Boeing quarrel, they agree on other WTO issues, such as digital duties and fisheries.
- [Clarence Thomas's Life Matters](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/clarence-thomass-life-matters/) - Justice Clarence Thomas is arguably the greatest Supreme Court justice of the past century and its most consistent originalist.
- [Bipartisan actions vs. China multiply](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/bipartisan-actions-vs-china-multiply/) - Congress and the President find themselves in bipartisan unanimity in measures opposing China's abuse of international law and treaties.
- [What's so hard to understand?](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/whats-so-hard-to-understand/) - Why is it so hard for journalists to understand the real reason why the Sunbelt is having a coronavirus surge? Widespread air conditioning.
- [Biden trade policy is "Trump Lite"](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/biden-trade-policy-is-trump-lite/) - Presumed Democratic presidential nominee Biden is promising a "Trump Lite" trade policy of Buy America, working with allies vs China, no TPP.
- [A multi-nation alliance is coalescing against China](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/a-multi-nation-alliance-is-coalescing-against-china/) - A multi-nation alliance is coalescing against China since it ripped up the international treaty it signed guarantying Hong Kong's autonomy.
- [Black Lives Matter: an American Taliban](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/black-lives-matter-an-american-taliban/) - How does the destruction of statues by the Democrats' Black Lives Matter mobs differ from what the Taliban did to the Buddhas of Bamiyan?
- [Court punts on taking non-delegation case](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/court-punts-on-taking-non-delegation-case/) - Court punts on taking non-delegation case brought by AIIS against administration's steel tariff. Other weekly trade news also featured.
- [Classical liberalism's conservative opponents](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/classical-liberalisms-conservative-opponents/) - The US was founded as a classical liberal republic, has long fought progressivism, and now also faces battle with conservative nationalism.
- [Senate grills Lighthizer over Bolton book charges](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/senate-grills-lighthizer-over-bolton-book-charges/) - USTR Lighthizer in report to Congress was grilled over the Bolton book charge that Trump's China trade deal was mainly re-election driven.
- [Congress joins White House in shift to industrial policy](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/congress-joins-white-house-in-shift-to-industrial-policy/) - Congress and the White House are committing the US to an industrial policy that it previously criticized Japan and China for.
- [President Trump: Inspire the nation if you want to win](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/president-trump-inspire-the-nation-if-you-want-to-win/) - If President Trump wants to win in 2020 he needs to inspire the nation with plans for innovation in space, defense, & new business formation.
- [Lighthizer calls for US industrial policy](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/lighthizer-calls-for-us-industrial-policy/) - Lighthizer: The US needs an industrial policy assuring that the US "has the ability to manufacture at home all the things that we need."
- [Democrats to blame for rioting and looting](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/democrats-blame-for-rioting-and-looting/) - Democratic governors created an unemployed lumpenproletariat through prolonged lockdowns, then stood aside when it began rioting and looting.
- [UK, in reversal, bans Huawei 5G](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/uk-in-reversal-bans-huawei-5g/) - The UK has reversed its earlier decision allowing Huawei's 5G. It now proposes that a consortium of democracies build a secure alternative.
- [Xi Jinping a laughingstock; Congress passing tough new bills](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/xi-jinping-a-laughingstock-congress-passing-tough-new-bills/) - Xi Jinping is regarded as a laughingstock in China. Tough US anti-China laws and international coronavirus anger aren't boosting Xi either.
- [Time for a major rethink of education and arts policies](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/time-for-a-major-rethink-of-education-and-arts-policies/) - Since March education has gone online. It's time for a major rethink of education and arts policies, even when the pandemic is over.
- [116 countries back Australia’s push for an independent coronavirus inquiry](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/116-countries-back-australias-push-for-an-independent-coronavirus-inquiry/) - 116 countries back Australia’s push for an independent coronavirus inquiry. WTO head retires unexpectedly. US tightens Huawei sanctions.
- [Why did the last golden age of the arts come to an end?](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/why-did-the-last-golden-age-of-the-arts-come-to-an-end/) - Why did the last golden age of the arts decline toward the end of the 19th century? What conditions tend to produce such ages?
- [Senator Hawley says US should leave WTO](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/senator-hawley-says-us-should-leave-wto/) - Sen. Hawley has introduced a resolution to withdraw the US from the WTO. This follows his NY Times op-ed, “The WTO Should Be Abolished.”
- [White House debates what to do about China](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/white-house-debates-what-to-do-about-china/) - China allowed infected persons to leave China and lied about the pandemic danger. Now the White House debates what to do about China.
- [Biden's foreign policy = Obama + Sanders](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/bidens-foreign-policy-obama-sanders/) - Presidential candidate Joe Biden's foreign policy is a combination of Obama + Sanders. All three have worked overtime to kill missile defense.
- [China problems, from Missouri to Australia](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/china-problems-from-missouri-to-australia/) - Missouri is suing China for the damages the Wuhan virus caused its citizens. China meanwhile is bullying the EU, Australia, and India.
- [One Size Doesn't Fit All (A Subsidiarity Lesson for Governors)](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/one-size-doesnt-fit-all-a-subsidiarity-lesson-for-governors/) - One size doesn't fit all. Governors should devolve decisions to restart economy to localities, businesses, individuals. That's subsidiarity.
- [Free trade initiatives prompted by pandemic](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/free-trade-initiatives-prompted-by-pandemic/) - Free trade initiatives in medical products are being pursued on three continents. Trade may become a campaign issue in the 2020 US election.
- [Africa, Ecuador should repudiate Chinese debt](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/africa-ecuador-should-repudiate-chinese-debt/) - China flooded countries with debt they cannot repay because of the Wuhan virus.These countries should unconditionally repudiate Chinese debt.
- [Attack on 3M resolved, harmful tariffs remain](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/attack-on-3m-resolved-harmful-tariffs-remain/) - The administration's attack on 3M has been amicably resolved, but its refusal to cancel tariffs is worsening medical supply shortages.
- [The conservative attack on originalism](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/the-conservative-attack-on-originalism/) - Two legal scholars have launched a national conservative attack on originalism. We critique one of the two, F.H. Buckley.
- [Blocking exports could hurt everyone](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/blocking-exports-could-hurt-everyone/) - Countries are blocking exports of medical supplies, which could hurt everyone. The US shouldn't use the Defense Production Act (DPA) for that.
- [Instant test for imbecility](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/instant-test-for-imbecility/) - Any politician or commentator who uses the all-time cliché of all clichés, "speaking truth to power," is a Certified Imbecile®.
- [Repudiate debt to China](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/repudiate-debt-to-china/) - To partly compensate for the deaths, unemployment, suffering, and trillions of dollars lost because of the Wuhan virus pandemic, the rest of the world should repudiate all debts to the Beijing regime responsible for the crisis.https://foundersbroadsheet.com/repudiate-debt-to-china/
- [No temporary tariff relief for now](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/no-temporary-tariff-relief-for-now/) - No tariff relief for now as President Trump tells press that Wall St Journal article claiming relief being planned is "fake news."
- [China's coronavirus statistics are phony](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/chinas-coronavirus-statistics-are-phony/) - China's coronavirus statistics are phony. Statisticians haven't been fooled, nor users of China's social media. So why are US journalists?
- [Déjà vu](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/deja-vu/) - Two millenia, two hated totalitarian emperors. The Chinese people deserve better. So does a world now suffering from Xi Jinping virus.
- [President and Navarro against tariff relief as stimulus](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/president-and-navarro-against-tariff-relief-as-stimulus/) - President Trump and his trade adviser Peter Navarro are both against tariff relief as a stimulus to stem coronavirus damage to the economy.
- [Canada has ratified the USMCA](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/canada-has-ratified-the-usmca/) - Canada has ratified the USMCA sooner than anticipated, a welcome move for a world suffering repeated trade blows from the COVID-19 virus.
- [China wet markets repeatedly cause global epidemics](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/china-wet-markets-repeatedly-cause-global-epidemics/) - China wet markets repeatedly caused global epidemics. Beijing's communist leadership kept the markets going to make their ultra-rich happy.
- [Markets plunge on Xi Jinping virus, oil war, Fed rate cut](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/markets-plunge-on-xi-jinping-virus-oil-war-fed-rate-cut/) - Markets plunge as the Xi Jinping virus nears pandemic status, oil price war threatens US shale oil, and the Fed weakens dollar by rate cuts.
- [Progressive policies produce homelessness](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/progressive-policies-produce-homelessness/) - Progressive policies produce homelessness. California has more than half the US homeless and increased its share when other states reduced it.
- [Slowing the coronavirus spread and impact](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/slowing-the-coronavirus-spread-and-impact/) - Slowing the coronavirus spread and impact is crucial for developing medical and business adaptations, including supply chain diversification.
- [French minister: world too dependent on China](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/french-minister-world-too-dependent-on-china/) - Responding to the Wuhan coronavirus economic damage worldwide, the French finance minister has declared the world too dependent on China..
- [Hold China liable for worldwide coronavirus costs](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/hold-china-liable-for-worldwide-coronavirus-costs/) - China is liable for the worldwide coronavirus deaths, injuries, business, and health costs its negligence, delays, and censorship caused.
- [President defying Congress and WTO](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/president-defying-congress-and-wto/) - Commerce is illegally refusing Congress an auto tariff report. The president is reportedly considering ending support for the WTO's MFN.
- [Why Fed fans fear Shelton](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/why-fed-fans-fear-shelton/) - The reason why Fed fans fear Shelton is her support for the productivity leaps the gold standard fostered -- without needing central banks.
- [Administration to punish "undervalued" currencies](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/administration-to-punish-undervalued-currencies/) - New rule proposed: The Commerce Department will decide if a foreign currency is undervalued and if so assess countervailng duties against it.
- [Wuhan virus shows Xi dictatorship unfit to rule](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/xi-dictatorship-unfit-to-rule/) - China's Xi dictatorship has shown itself unfit to rule. For one month it dithered and suppressed news of the virus danger, causing an epidemic
- [Xi dictatorship to blame for delayed Wuhan containment](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/xi-dictatorship-to-blame-for-delayed-wuhan-containmen/) - The Xi dictatorship is to blame for the delayed Wuhan containment effort. Wuhan officials didn't dare act until Xi in Beijing gave his ok.
- [Split decisions on US anti-Huawei effort](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/split-decisions-on-us-anti-huawe-effort-uk-disappoints-eu-punts/) - The US anti-Huawei effort is encountering split decisions abroad, with the UK disappointing and EU punting.
- [Democrats have become the anti-science party](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/democrats-have-become-the-anti-science-party/) - By nursing identity politics, Democrats have become the anti-science party, thwarting astronomy, American Indian archaeology, and art museums.
- [Metals tariffs didn't work, so administration adds more](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/metals-tariffs-didnt-work-so-administration-adds-more/) - The Section 232 metals tariffs didn't work, the administration now admits, so it's added more tariffs on downstream metals products.
- [California abortion mandate unconstitutional and illegal](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/california-abortion-mandate-unconstitutional-and-illegal/) - California's abortion coverage mandate violates federal law and is unconstitutional. HHS orders state to cease or face Medicaid fund cutoff.
- [China trade deal called managed-trade Gosplan](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/china-trade-deal-called-managed-trade-gosplan/) - Critics of the US-China trade deal say it's "managed trade," a "Gosplan" like the former USSR's command-economy plans that destroyed it
- [Trade's minor player, Congress](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/trades-minor-player-congress/) - Congress has left business to fight a dictatorial Commerce rule on foreign tech deals and reduced the Senate to rubber-stamping the USMCA.
- [Iraq could break up if the US is expelled](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/iraq-could-break-up-if-the-us-is-expelled/) - Iraq could break up into three states if US troops are expelled at a point when Iran dominates so many Iraqi Shiite militia and politicians
- [USMCA puts US under UN](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/usmca-puts-us-under-un/) - Congress is rushing unnecessarily and illegally to pass the USMCA, not realizing it puts the US under UN labor and environmental jurisdiction.
- [President Trump's trade wars not accounted a success](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/president-trumps-trade-wars-not-accounted-a-success/) - As 2019 closes, President Trump's trade wars cannot be accounted a success. Manufactures, GDP, and credibility are down, and deficits are up.
- [Richard Jewell, loser pays  (and government should too)](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/richard-jewell-loser-pays-and-government-should-too/) - "Richard Jewell" suggests the US needs a "loser pays" legal reform for both civil and criminal justice, including wrongful government suits.
- [Gun control just died in Monsey and White Settlement](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/gun-control-just-died-in-monsey-and-white-settlement/) - Gun control just died in Monsey NY and White Settlement TX. In both, parishioners will be packing heat to church and temple services.
- [Wednesday (10/25/2017) - Clintons, Dems, FBI colluded with Russia, not Trump](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/clintons-dems-fbi-colluded-with-russia/) - The Clintons, Democratic Party, and FBI colluded with Russia, not Trump's campaign, new revelations indicate.
- [USMCA and China trade pact approval likely](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/usmca-and-china-trade-pact-approval-likely/) - USMCA and China trade pact approval is likely, but the USMCA is being criticized as anti-trade, and details of the China pact aren't yet out.
- [Progressives’ malign influence on education](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/progressives-malign-influence-on-education/) - Progressives' malign influence on education expresses itself in harmful reading and math pedagogy and the NY Times unscholarly 1619 Project.
- [Chile, Colombia uprisings because Maduro not ousted](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/chile-colombia-uprisings-because-maduro-not-ousted/) - Chile, Colombia uprisings and refugee floods are the fruit of the US not having ousted Maduro from power in Venezuela.
- [Republican Senate not using subpoena powers or approving crucial nominees](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/republican-senate-not-using-subpoena-powers-or-approving-crucial-nominees/) - Senate Republicans, unlike House Democrats, are not using their key subpoena powers, nor are they approving nominees to crucial functions.
- [Has The American Mind lost its?](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/has-the-american-mind-lost-its/) - Six erstwhile conservative editors have published a manifesto in The American Mind calling for government action to curb Silicon Valley.
- [Trump administration plays hardball at the WTO](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/trump-administration-plays-hardball-to-change-the-wto/) - The US has been playing hardball at the WTO, which could cease to function after December 10th unless members can agree on reforms
- [Three trade events last week: are we better off?](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/three-trade-events-last-week-are-we-better-off/) - President Trump and supporters hail three trade events last week: at the WTO and with Mexico, Canada, and China. How beneficial were they?
- [Cato monetary conference calls for Fed reforms and alternatives](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/cato-monetary-conference-calls-for-fed-reforms-and-alternatives/) - This year's annual Cato monetary conference called for a rule-based Fed, $-€ linkage, and replacing most central banks with currency boards.
- [US threatens new tariffs on Brazil, Argentina, France and EU](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/us-threatens-new-tariffs-on-brazil-argentina-france-and-eu/) - President Trump threatens new tariffs on Brazil, Argentina (steel, aluminum) and retaliatory tariffs on France (digital tax) and EU (Airbus).
- [Radical Environmentalists Condemn African Children to Malaria Deaths](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/radical-environmentalists-condemn-african-children-to-malaria-deaths/) - By protection malaria mosquitos from gene programs, radical environmentalists condemn hundreds of thousands of children to death each year.
- [No need to make nicey-nice with Xi Jinping for a trade deal](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/no-need-to-make-nicey-nice-with-xi-jinping-for-a-trade-deal/) - President Trump needn't play down support for Hong Kong's citizens and Xinjiang's Muslims. Communist leader Xi is facing growing opposition.
- [US threatens WTO existence but punts on auto import tariffs](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/us-threatens-wto-existence-but-punts-on-auto-import-tariffs/) - The US threatens to end the WTO by withholding US funding. President Trump meanwhile has ignored a deadline to decide on auto import tariffs.
- [RCEP a minor trade win for China but India bows out](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/rcep-a-minor-trade-win-for-china-but-india-bows-out/) - The near conclusion of the RCEP trade pact is a minor trade win for China vs the US even though India is not joining yet.
- [Is inequality a big problem? Will Progressives make it worse?](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/is-inequality-a-big-problem-will-progressives-make-it-worse/) - Progressives claim inequality has worsened in US, but meanwhile poverty has decreased and quality of life has improved.
- [US-China "phase one" delayed, might be "phase last"](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/us-china-phase-one-delayed-might-be-phase-last/) - Expected Trump-Xi signing of US-China "phase one" trade deal postponed because of APEC cancellation but could end up being "phase last"
- [Chile and the importance of ideas](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/chile-and-the-importance-of-ideas/) - The Chilean disturbances underline the importance of leaders not just doing the right thing but also explaining why to the public.
- [Limited US-China trade deal likely at mid-November APEC summit](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/limited-us-china-trade-deal-likely-at-mid-november-apec-summit/) - Presidents Trump and Xi will likely finalize their “phase one” trade deal when they meet mid-November at the APEC summit in Santiago, Chile.
- [Sometimes governments get it right, just not California](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/sometimes-governments-get-it-right-just-not-california/) - Sometimes governments do the right thing. Three exemplary government actions took place in the past week -- two by the US, one by Indonesia.
- [US imposes new tariffs on EU over Airbus subsidies](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/us-imposes-new-tariffs-on-eu-over-airbus-subsidies/) - Following a favorable WTO ruling over impermissible EU subsidies to Airbus, the US has imposed tariffs of 10 on imports from the EU.
- [The US still has no well-thought-out Mideast policy](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/the-us-still-has-no-well-thought-out-mideast-policy/) - The US has no thought-out Mideast policy. Its initiatives are self-contradictory, and its Republican supporters are confused and divided.
- [Saturday (10/28/2017) U.S. should power balance, not fight, in Mideast's civil wars](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/u-s-should-power-balance-not-fight-in-mideasts-civil-wars/) - The Mideast dominates the world's proven oil reserves, but the U.S. should power balance, not fight, in the region's raging civil wars.
- [Sunday (10/29/2017) Nation-building a non-starter in Mideast, Afghanistan](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/nation-building-a-non-starter-in-mideast/) - Nation-building a non-starter in Mideast, Afghanistan because tribe's victory over rivals honored above peace, brideprice favors jihadism
- [Trump ok's small China trade deal but Hong Kong wants US guarantees](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/trump-oks-small-china-trade-deal-but-hong-kong-wants-us-guarantees/) - Pres. Trump, despite claims he wouldn't settle for a limited deal with China, just did, but Congress is taking up Hong Kong's freedom fight.
- [What should have happened in Syria](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/what-should-have-happened-in-syria/) - President Trump is making good on a campaign promise to exit US troops from the Mideast but could have done so in a way better for the Kurds.
- [US wins largest penalty ever for EU's WTO-illegal Airbus subsidies](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/us-wins-largest-penalty-ever-for-eus-wto-illegal-airbus-subsidies/) - The WTO awarded the US the largest penalty ever in its dispute over the EU's Airbus subsidies. China and India developments are also discussed
- [Democrats more envious, self-centered, without higher purpose](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/democrats-more-envious-self-centered-without-higher-purpose/) - Cato survey reveals a Democratic Party Left that is self-centered, hedonistic, without a higher purpose in life, and envious of the rich.
- [Limited US trade deal with Japan but not India](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/limited-us-trade-deal-with-japan-but-not-india/) - US gets limited Japanese trade deal but not with India. US wins Postal Union reform. USMCA threatened by impeachment, US-EU trade by tariffs.
- [$750 mn. donation to Caltech likely harmful](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/750-mn-donation-to-caltech-likely-harmful/) - Good came from Scrovegni's Giotto chapel to atone for usury sin. We don't expect it from a Caltech donation to atone for alleged "Green" sin.
- [US seeks limited trade agreements with India, Japan, not China](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/us-seeks-limited-trade-agreements-with-india-japan-not-china/) - The Trump Administration is moving to reach limited trade agreements with India and Japan before the 2020 US elections – but not with China.
- [Iran attack requires a US military response](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/iran-attack-requires-a-us-military-response/) - Iran's attack on major Saudi oil facilities and world energy supply requires a US military response or the widespread loss of US credibility.
- [US and Saudis re-enact Maginot line](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/us-and-saudis-re-enact-maginot-line/) - Pres. Trump, your Mideast strategy makes no sense. You can't wage economic warfare without anticipating the possibility of the real thing.
- [US-China olive twigs exchanged](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/us-china-olive-twigs-exchanged/) - The US and China slightly eased their trade war, helping US farmers. But US Congress solicitude for Hong Kong could present an obstacle.
- [China's phony data and treaty unreliability](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/chinas-phony-data-and-treaty-unreliability/) - China's government suppresses accurate data about its economy and ignores its treaty obligations to honor Hong Kong's rights. Why trust it?
- [Missile defense for allies but not US](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/missile-defense-for-allies-but-not-us/) - The US needs to deploy space-based sensors to move toward full homeland defense against Chinese and Russian threats, not just North Korean.
- [Is the US finally going to build a capable space-based missile shield?](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/is-the-us-finally-going-to-build-a-capable-space-based-missile-shield/) - Congress and the Pentagon may finally start building a space-based missile shield capable of protecting the US from a Chinese or Russian nuclear attack. The present US system isn't even trustworthy to protect the US and its bases against an attack by North Korea, a minor nuclear missile state North Korea.
- [US-China Tariffs Escalate; USMCA Still in Play](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/us-china-tariffs-escalate-usmca-still-in-play/) - US-China tariffs escalated on Sept. 1st, with new tariffs expected on Dec. 15th. Congress returns from recess, USMCA passage still unresolved.
- [Progressives' taxes mix bad economics with envy](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/progressives-taxes-mix-bad-economics-with-envy/) - Progressives are proposing new taxes on the rich that are economically harmful and seem motivated by a politics of envy.
- [G7, Jackson Hole cap tumultuous week for trade](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/g7-jackson-hole-cap-tumultuous-week-for-trade/) - G7 meeting in Biarritz and central banker conclave in Jackson Hole do little to resolve US-China trade war and threatened US-EU clash
- [Brain benefits found in exercise, dietary restriction](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/brain-benefits-found-in-exercise-dietary-restriction/) - Recent health research explains how exercise and dietary restriction benefit overall health and the brain in particular, but not propionate.
- [Administration's trade and currency policies are contradictory](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/administrations-trade-and-currency-policies-are-contradictory/) - The Trump administration's policy of seeking foreign investment in the US (+$) while calling for dollar devaluation (-$) is contradictory.
- [Scaramucci, business ally of Chinese communists, attacks President Trump](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/a-business-ally-of-chinese-communists-attacks-president-trump/) - Former Trump communications director Anthony Scaramucci now loudly opposes his former boss -- to curry favor with Beijing, we suggest.
- [Industrial policy's strange bedfellows](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/industrial-policys-strange-bedfellows/) - "National Conservative" Republicans are adopting industrial policy. So is Elizabeth Warren. Will President Trump also join the Uniparty?
- [Fed blunders created the inverted yield curve](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/fed-blunders-created-the-inverted-yield-curve/) - Of the two threats to the US economy - the inverted yield curve and trade wars - the Fed created inverted yield curve is the more serious.
- [China trade war escalates; new strategy needed](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/china-trade-war-escalates-new-strategy-needed/) - The US-China trade war has escalated. A different US strategy is indicated: full trade but not in strategic goods, including for Huawei.
- [The Nationalists' attack on the Founding and Enlightenment](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/the-nationalists-attack-on-the-founding-and-enlightenment/) - Patrick Deneen and Yoram Hazony blame the Enlightenment and Founders for the Progressive takeover of US culture and educational institutions.
- [China and North Korea](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/china-north-korea/)
- [Wednesday (12/20/2017) Republican Congress wins trifecta in one bill: tax reform, oil drilling in Alaska, no more Obamacare individual mandate](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/republican-congress-wins-trifecta-in-tax-bill/) - Republican Congress wins trifecta in one bill: major tax reform, no more Obamacare individual mandate, oil drilling allowed in remote Alaska Wildlife Refuge
- [US seeks to head off Turkey break with free trade offer](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/us-seeks-to-head-off-turkey-break-with-free-trade-offer/) - Sen. Lindsey Graham proposes a US-Turkey free trade agreement to head off a break in relations threatened by Turkey's Russian ABM purchase.
- [Congress introduces two bills to thwart Huawei threat](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/congress-introduces-two-bills-to-thwart-huawei-threat/) - Congress introduced two bills this week aimed at curbing China's state-backed dominance of 5G and the national security risk it poses.
- [Astronauts, Trump support Zubrin plan for Mars](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/astronauts-trump-support-zubrin-plan-for-mars/) - Robert Zubrin's The Case for Space maps a better plan for human travel to Mars and beyond than NASA's and its importance to the US & humanity
- [French impose tax aimed mainly at US software companies](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/french-impose-tax-aimed-mainly-at-us-software-companies/) - The US is looking into imposing Section 301 tariffs on France in retaliation for its Digital Services Tax hitting US software firms.
- [Cold War with China? Yes](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/cold-war-with-china-yes/) - We are now in a Cold War with China and its political culture of imperial rule, but the Trump administration simply recognized that reality.
- [President accuses trade partners of currency manipulation](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/president-accuses-trade-partners-of-currency-manipulation/) - President Trump alleges foreign currency manipulation but calls for US manipulation. US countervailing duty proposal is attacked at WTO.
- [US and China back to 'Go' as EU forges new trade deals](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/us-and-china-back-to-go-as-eu-forges-new-trade-deals/) - The US and China are back to where they were in May when negotiations broke off. Meanwhile the EU is concluding important new trade deals.
- [A protectionist thinks technology trumps the division of labor](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/new-technology-requires-an-extended-division-of-labor/) - A writer for American Greatness tries to use tech innovation to belittle Adam Smith's emphasis on the division of labor and free trade.
- [Big G20 question: will the threatened 25% tariffs be avoided?](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/big-g20-question-will-the-threatened-25-tariffs-be-avoided/) - At the Osaka G20, Presidents Trump and Xi will be seeking to avoid the threatened 25% US tariffs on remaining Chinese exports to the US.
- [Iran emboldened by non-response to its attacks](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/iran-emboldened-by-non-response-to-its-attacks/) - President Trump erred in not responding militarily to two months of hostile actions against the US and its allies by Iran and its proxies.
- [Beijing regime weakened by Hong Kong revolt](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/beijing-regime-weakened-by-hong-kong-revolt/) - President Trump has avoided raising the Tienanmen massacre and Hong Kong revolt in the hope of trade negotations with Xi at the G20 meeting.
- [Maxwell Gladwell's Outliers gets a welcome challenge](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/maxwell-gladwells-outliers-gets-a-welcome-challenge/) - Range celebrates exploration and job switching over the view that success depends on early specialization and 10,000 hours of practice.
- [Relief, mixed reviews on Mexico tariff suspension](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/relief-mixed-reviews-on-mexico-tariff-suspension/) - Great relief as President Trump heeds advisers’ advice to suspend threat of tariffs on Mexico but agreement also gets multiple criticisms.
- [The movie that should have won the foreign language Oscar](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/the-movie-that-should-have-won-the-foreign-language-oscar/) - This year’s Oscar for the best foreign film went to Roma rather than a much more ambitious and thought-provoking German film, Never Look Away.
- [Modern monetary theory (MMT) and its Japan paradigm](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/modern-monetary-theory-mmt-and-its-japan-paradigm/) - Modern monetary theory (MMT) is popular with some Democratic candidates. But classical monetary theory and Japan undermine MMT's credibility.
- [Mexican tariff threat hurts diplomacy, lets Dems off hook](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/mexican-tariff-threat-hurts-diplomacy-lets-dems-off-hook/) - The president's new tariffs against Mexico threatens US trade deals and diplomacy and lets Democrats off the hook over the border crisis.
- [Commerce proposes a new countervailing duty: currency devaluation](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/commerce-proposes-a-new-countervailing-duty-currency-devaluation/) - The US Commerce Department has just released a draft proposal to add currency devaluation to its rules on countervailing duties.
- [Nostalgia for obsolete jobs isn't smart](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/nostalgia-for-obsolete-jobs-isnt-smart/) - The populist nationalism promoted by Trump supporters has virtues but short-changing the benefits of trade and technology is not one of them.
- [US capital investment hit by Trump's trade warring](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/us-capital-investment-hit-by-trumps-trade-warring/)
- [Don't write off conservatism](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/dont-write-off-conservatism/)
- [Major escalation of US-China trade war by both sides](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/major-escalation-of-us-china-trade-war-by-both-sides/) - President Trump's raised tariffs from 10 on $200 bn. of imports from China. Beijing retaliated with higher tariffs on American goods.
- [Death by acronyms at the UN](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/death-by-acronyms-at-the-un/) - The UN's new species-extinction alarmist group IPBES is a spin-off of its climate doomsday group, the IPCC, both in personnel and methodology
- [Effect of Trump China tariff threat uncertain](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/effect-of-trump-china-tariff-threat-uncertain/) - Trump tweet suggests that US-China trade talks aren't going as well as US and Chinese officials indicated after talks in Beijing last week
- [US Afghan diplomacy is a disgrace](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/us-afghan-diplomacy-is-a-disgrace/) - The US disgraces itself by negotiating with the Taliban despite repeated humiliations of US negotiators and the US-allied Afghan government.
- [Positive outlook for China, Japan trade talks; USMCA stalled](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/positive-outlook-for-china-japan-trade-talks-usmca-stalled/) - President Trump is moving to wrap up US trade talks with Japan and China and to get Congressional ratification of the USMCA.
- [Why Democrats shouldn't complain about a citizenship question on the Census](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/why-democrats-shouldnt-complain-about-a-citizenship-question-on-the-census/) - Democratic fears of losing votes and fed funds if a citizenship question is on the Census can be overcome by encouraging full participation.
- [WTO reportedly rejects China's claim to be market economy](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/wto-reportedly-rejects-chinas-claim-to-be-market-economy/) - China has reportedly lost the WTO case it brought against the EU for not granting it market-economy status. US also stands to win from ruling
- [Polar bears thriving, global warmists not so much](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/polar-bears-thriving-global-warmists-not-so-much/) - There have never been so many polar bears as now, the Inuit of northern Canada report. Global warming tropes haven't been thriving recently.
- [US trade policies hurting farmers, driving allies closer to China](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/us-trade-policies-hurting-farmers-driving-allies-closer-to-china/) - US trade policies are hurting farmers and driving the EU and Japan closer to China, despite the grievances the allies share with the US
- [The Jones Act costs billions and kills](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/the-jones-act-costs-billions-and-kills/) - The 1920 Jones Act creates billions in extra shipping costs; adds to highway pollution, congestion, and deaths; and kills sailors at sea.
- [WTO ruling threatens Section 232 steel & aluminum tariffs](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/wto-ruling-threatens-section-232-steel-aluminum-tariffs/) - The WTO just ruled that Russia can discriminate against Ukranian goods because war exists. But US Section 232 tariffs likely won't qualify.
- [Housing crisis hits homeless and middle class](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/housing-crisis-hits-homeless-and-middle-class/) - The housing crisis is being felt not just by the homeless population but up the economic ladder to the top rungs of the middle class.
- [Administration wins steel tariff case; Court review likely](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/administration-wins-steel-tariff-case-court-review-likely/) - President Trump’s 25% tariff on steel imports has now become a constitutional issue likely to end up at the Supreme Court.
- [Maintain momentum but no unforced errors, please!](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/maintain-momentum-but-no-unforced-errors-please/) - The Trump administration has momentum following the conclusion of the Mueller investigation but needs to correct a damaging unforced error.
- [Tariffs on German cars high on Trump trade agenda](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/tariffs-on-german-cars-high-on-trump-trade-agenda/) - Despite domestic opposition, Section 232 automotive tariffs are high on President Trump's trade agenda, with Germany the likeliest target.
- [Euro Parliament advises against US-EU trade deal](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/euro-parliament-advises-against-us-eu-trade-deal/) - A vote in European Parliament on whether to pursue a US-EU trade deal failed. While just advisory, it's another blow against an accord.
- [How could Trump best M.A.G.A in 2020?](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/how-could-trump-best-m-a-g-a-in-2020/) - By endorsing MIke Pence for president in 2020, Trump could thwart Democratic optimism of easily gaining a White House victory at his expense.
- [President Trump continues "Stick it to the allies" approach](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/president-trump-continues-stick-it-to-the-allies-approach/) - President Trump is continuing to pursue his "Stick it to the allies" trade policies in parallel with US-China negotiations, weakening both.
- [A Chinese-Russian "Heartland" leads a Dictators' Internationale](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/a-chinese-russian-heartland-leads-a-dictators-internationale/) - The Chinese-Russian Heartland leads the Dictators' Internationale, which includes Turkey, Iran, North Korea, Cuba, Venezuela, Pakistan.
- [US prevails over China in WTO farm subsidy case](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/us-prevails-over-china-in-wto-farm-subsidy-case/) - The US has won a significant World Trade Organization (WTO) decision against China for its agricultural subsidies that hurt US farmers.
- [Democrats' Green New Deal borrows from Green Party, Club of Rome, Malthus, Marx](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/democrats-green-new-deal-borrows-from-green-party-club-of-rome-malthus-marx/) - The Democratic Party, environmentalist movement, and Green Party have merged with a program derived from the Malthusian Club of Rome.
- [President's China trade optimism encounters skepticism](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/presidents-china-trade-optimism-encounters-skepticism/) - President Trump's optimism over China trade talk progress encounters skepticism; also criticism for Huawei comment undermining rule of law.
- [The military-commercial nexus that keeps Maduro in power](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/the-military-commercial-nexus-that-keeps-maduro-in-power/) - Nicolás Maduro is hanging on to power by means of the military-commercial nexus that Venezuela shares with Cuba and Pakistan.
- [Suspense over auto tariffs](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/suspense-over-auto-tariffs/) - No one knows whether the Commerce Department met its deadline to report on whether auto tariffs should be imposed, despite wide opposition.
- [Trump-Xi summit off, US at loggerheads with EU](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/trump-xi-summit-off-us-at-loggerheads-with-eu/) - The Trump-Xi summit for February is off, 25% tariffs on Chinese imports loom, and the US is at loggerheads with the EU over Huawei and autos
- [Two Euro countries favor China's Huawei over Western security](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/two-euro-countries-favor-chinas-huawei-over-western-security/) - Germany and Italy are favoring China's Communist-controlled Huawei over Western security needs. They should face strong sanctions in reply.
- [Will China implement structural reforms or just increase US imports?](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/will-china-implement-structural-reforms-or-just-increase-us-imports/) - USTR Lighthizer insists that any Trump-Xi deal include the structural changes -- not just a Chinese promise to purchase more US exports.
- [WTO members launch E-commerce talks](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/wto-members-launch-e-commerce-talks/) - At Davos, fifty WTO members including the US, EU, and China, agreed to launch talks for a long-sought e-commerce and digital trade agreement.
- [The five seapower states that created our modern commercial republics](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/the-five-sea-power-states-who-created-our-modern-commercial-republics/) - In his book Seapower States, historian Andrew Lambert chronicles the rise and fall of five great sea powers and their cultural influence.
- [China offers $1 trillion but US wants reforms](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/china-offers-1-trillion-but-us-wants-reforms/) - China offers to boost imports from US by one trillion dollars, but faces spy charges, WTO complaints, export bans, and reform demands.
- [The Russian nuclear war danger](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/the-russian-nuclear-war-danger/) - Russia believes it has a winning first-use nuclear strategy. The US must rebuild its nuclear deterrent or risk catastrophic nuclear war.
- [President's bid for more trade power likely to fail](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/presidents-bid-for-more-trade-power-likely-to-fail/) - President Trump's bid for expanded trade power will likely fail to garner support in Congress. China and EU talks also face obstacles.
- [Could we have a Wall-DACA compromise, please?](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/could-we-have-a-wall-daca-compromise-please/) - There is a growing consensus among Republicans that the government shutdown should be ended by means of a Wall-DACA compromise bill.
- [Worsening US trade outlook for 2019](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/worsening-us-trade-outlook-for-2019/) - The US trade outlook for 2019 is expected to worsen because of declining world trade and US non-membership in the TPP free trade area.
- [2018 in trade: China on defensive; TPP-11 underway](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/2018-in-trade-china-on-defensive-tpp-11-underway/) - The two most important 2018 trade developments: US putting China's trade policies on notice and Japan's reviving the TPP-11 after US departed
- [Global warming lobby ends year in defeat](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/global-warming-lobby-ends-year-in-defeat/) - 2018 hasn't been good to the global warming lobby: expanded drilling in the US West and Alaska's ANWR and no US IPCC endorsement at Katowice
- [Do Section 232 tariffs violate the Constitution?](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/do-section-232-tariffs-violate-the-constitution/) - Metal-using industries are suing US government on grounds Congress violated Constitution by delegating all Section 232 powers to President
- [Mattis resignation caps bad week for Trump](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/mattis-resignation-caps-bad-week-for-trump/)
- [China dangles minor trade concessions](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/china-dangles-minor-trade-concessions/) - China is making modest trade concessions -- hoping to relieve US pressure that it reverse its technology theft, spying, and state subsidies
- [Defending the Ukraine, avoiding war](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/defending-the-ukraine-avoiding-war/) - Russia has just escalated its war against the Ukraine. A strong, united Western response is required, with neutralization one possibility.
- [Anti-Chinese measures widely supported but not Section 232 tariffs](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/anti-chinese-measures-widely-supported-but-not-section-232-tariffs/) - US anti-Chinese national security measures are widely popular but not the President's Section 232 tariffs on iron, aluminum, and perhaps cars
- [The WTO's importance to US and UK prosperity](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/the-wtos-importance-to-us-and-uk-prosperity/) - WTO membership makes "hard Brexit" (no deal with EU) the UK's best option and will protect US-Mexico trade if the USMCA fails to be ratified.
- [Ninety-day truce with China, Trump's risky NAFTA threat](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/ninety-day-truce-with-china-trumps-risky-nafta-threat/) - US will delay tariff hikes, new tariffs on China for 90 days. Trump's premature termination of NAFTA may kill his 2020 re-election chances.
- [President unconcerned with tariff effect on economic outlook](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/president-unconcerned-with-tariff-effect-on-economic-outlook/) - President Trump is unconcerned with US tariffs' effect on economic outlook. USTR report says Chinese behavior hasn't improved
- [Bad governments create externalities, a.k.a. refugees](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/bad-governments-create-externalities-a-k-a-refugees/) - The US is by no means alone in facing unwanted crowds of refugees heading for its borders: so too Bangladesh, Columbia, and the EU.
- [Chinese leaders unhinged as economy weakens](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/chinese-leaders-unhinged-as-economy-weakens/) - Chinese leaders unhinged as economy weakens. US economy thriving but warning sides appear. Trade issues create capital spending worries.
- [What would a great US statesman now do?](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/what-would-a-great-us-statesman-now-do/) - The US President could now commit a great historical act of statesmanship by offering the United Kingdom an immediate free trade pact.
- [Trade in split Congress likely to be bipartisan but protectionist](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/trade-in-split-congress-likely-to-be-bipartisan-but-protectionist/) - Trade is one of the few areas where bipartisanship is possible in a hlghly divided Congress, but a protectionist tendency is likely.
- [Why John and Jill can't major in science](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/why-john-and-jill-cant-major-in-science/) - US high school graduates don't get enough math instruction to successfully major in the sciences in college.
- [Pacific allies sign major free trade pact without US](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/pacific-allies-sign-major-free-trade-pact-without-us/) - The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) free trade pact is now underway, ratified by Japan, Canada, Mexico, Singapore, New Zealand, and Australia.
- [Has fusion power's "SpaceX" moment arrived?](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/has-fusion-powers-spacex-moment-arrived/) - Fusion power is now going commercial, as promising a development as commercialization has been for the human genome and space travel.
- [Business investment stagnating in face of trade uncertainty](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/business-investment-stagnating-in-face-of-trade-uncertainty/) - The weakness in 3rd quarter business investment suggests that businesses are suspending investments in the face of trade policy uncertainty.
- [Why so many Johnnies still can't read](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/why-so-many-johnnies-still-cant-read/) - Whole-language reading has been debunked by research in favor of phonics but still creates millions of poor readers and illiterates.
- [On Halloween, Progressives give rein to their inner ghoul](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/on-halloween-progressives-give-rein-to-their-inner-ghoul/) - Megyn Kelly should exit NBC with a huge exit package, a smile on her face, and no more apologies for defending childhood Halloween play.
- [Strategic materials war with China, US free trade negotiations with allies](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/strategic-materials-war-with-china-us-free-trade-negotiations-with-allies/) - White House notifies Congress of trade negotiations with Japan, EU, and UK. China meanwhile rushes to lock up strategic materials worldwide.
- [Is the United States going to pot?](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/is-the-united-states-going-to-pot/) - Recreational pot use is a serious health issue, requiring discouragement and rehabilitation, but it nevertheless should be legalized.
- [Prosperity threatened by interest rates, oil, and trade wars](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/prosperity-threatened-by-interest-rates-oil-and-trade/) - Interest rate increases, oil price spikes, and expanded trade wars are real threats to the world economy. The IMF and others are worried.
- [Strategic caution required in Khashoggi affair](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/kashoggi-was-a-leading-muslim-brotherhood-propagandist/) - Kashoggi was a leading Muslim Brotherhood propagandist and Saudi opponent. Prudence is called for in the US response to his disappearance.
- [With NAFTA 2 concluded, will President join allies against China trade misbehavior?](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/with-nafta-2-concluded-will-president-join-allies-against-china-trade-misbehavior/) - Will President Trump conclude agreements with the EU and Japan in order to refocus on China's trade misbehavior?
- [Trump's trade agreements antagonize allies but are mostly PR](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/trumps-trade-agreements-antagonize-allies-but-are-mostly-pr/) - Globalists Will Love Trump’s New Nafta Deal. Despite the fanfare, the agreement doesn’t change much -- except the name. Same with Korea pact.
- [Innovative entrepreneur Elon Musk settles favorably with SEC](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/innovative-entrepreneur-elon-musk-settles-favorably-with-sec/) - Tesla and SpaceX founder Elon Musk has just settled an SEC suit on terms favorable to himself and the innovative companies he founded
- [Little support in private sector for administration's escalating trade war](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/little-support-in-private-sector-for-administrations-mounting-trade-war/) - The US private sector is widely opposed to the latest Section 301 tariffs on China and the administration's escalating trade war.
- [Republican congressmen fear losing races because of trade war impact](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/republican-congressmen-fear-losing-races-because-of-trade-war-impact/) - Trump: $200 bn new tariffs on China coming soon. Republican congressmen: may lose midterms because of economic damage to their districts
- [Why the Republican House is pushing "Tax Reform 2.0"](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/why-the-republican-house-is-pushing-tax-reform-2-0/) - Republican legislators in the House will vote by month-end on Tax Reform 2.0 -- to extend popular individual provisions of Tax Reform 1.0.
- [Trump threatens Japan and Canada with ruinous auto tariffs](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/trump-threatens-japan-and-canada-with-ruinous-auto-tariffs/) - Trump is threatening Japan and Canada with ruinous auto tariffs and China with tariffs on all its exports to the US
- [Keeping the Fed from Doing Bad Things Again](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/preventing-the-fed-from-wrecking-the-u-s-and-world-economy-again/) - The Fed should be compelled to restore normal interest rates, to free up capital for investment, and to not damage the economy.again
- [How to speed nominee approval in the Senate](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/ideas-for-the-senate/)
- [Why this new website?](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/why-this-new-website/) - Our goal is to provide scientific, cultural, and political news and analysis not likely to have been encountered by readers elsewhere
- [In Afghanistan, It's Deja Vu All Over Again](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/in-afghanistan-its-deja-vu-all-over-again/) - In Afghanistan, It's Deja Vu. Didn't the US learn from earlier failures that to win you have to neutralize outside supporters of the enemy?
- [Trump threatens Canada, NAFTA, WTO, and Congress](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/trump-threatens-canada-and-congress-afl-cio-head-opposes/) - Trump threatens Canada, NAFTA, the WTO, and Congress. Rest of world forming defending selves by forming free-trade pacts without the US
- [Agreement with Mexico but unity vs China pending](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/agreement-with-mexico-but-unity-vs-china-pending/) - Trade agreement with Mexico concluded but Canada not yet aboard and hoped for US-EU-Japan union vs. China's mercantilism is still pending
- [Can US education become great again?](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/can-us-education-become-great-again/) - We now have a monopolistic, over-regulated K-12 school system and expensive four-year college scams. Both must end if the US is to prosper.
- [Florida takes jackpot for amendments on November ballot](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/florida-takes-jackpot-for-amendments-on-november-ballot/) - Florida takes the jackpot for the number of amendments on the November ballot. Several of these amendments are also badly written.
- [Vice-ministerial level US-China trade talks resume; outcome uncertain](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/vice-ministerial-level-us-china-trade-talks-resume-outcome-uncertain/) - Vice-ministerial level US-China trade talks resume: outcome uncertain. NAFTA stalled, farm incomes down, job losses predicted by economists.
- [Second tranche of US-China tit-for-tat tariffs goes live in ten days](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/second-tranche-of-us-china-tit-for-tat-tariffs-goes-live-in-ten-days/) - Second tranche of US-China tit-for-tat tariffs goes live in ten days. A third tranche is being readied. Commerce's Wilbur Ross under a cloud.
- [Indexing capital gains taxes a good idea, but...](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/indexing-capital-gains-taxes-a-good-idea-but/) - Indexing capital gains taxes is a good idea and will unlock capital for new investments, but double taxation of dividends will still remain.
- [Xi under pressure as US-China tariff standoff escalates](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/xi-under-pressure-as-us-china-tariff-standoff-escalates/) - Xi under pressure as US-China tariff standoff escalates. Both US and China are increasing retaliatory tariffs and not yet talking.
- [Summer heat brings out global warming enthusiasts, their Russian allies, and carbon tax Republicans](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/summer-heat-brings-out-global-warming-enthusiasts-their-russian-allies-and-carbon-tax-republicans/) - Summer heat brings out global warming enthusiasts, their Russian allies, and carbon tax Republicans. Carbon tax Republicans are joining them.
- [US-EU "deal" -- a quick fix but no long-term clarity](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/us-eu-deal-a-quick-fix-but-no-long-term-clarity/) - The art of the quick fix: European Commission President Juncker and US President Trump arrange a temporary, informal, and limited trade deal
- [US should punish China for killing Qualcomm-NXP merger](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/us-should-punish-china-for-killing-qualcomm-nxp-merger/) - US should punish China for killing Qualcomm-NXP merger by reinstating original fatal penalties on sanctions violator ZTE
- [Japan and EU sign largest bilateral trade deal ever](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/japan-and-eu-sign-largest-bilateral-trade-deal-ever/) - Japan and EU sign largest bilateral free trade agreement ever concluded, covering over 600 million people and almost a third of world GDP.
- [Federal Reserve shouldn't set interest rates](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/federal-reserve-shouldnt-set-interest-rates/) - Interest rates should be set not by the fed but by markets. Fed policy creates boom / bust cycles. NGDP targeting would avoid such cycles.
- [Iran's Revolutionary Guard to be declared terrorist organization](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/irans-revolutionary-guard-to-be-declared-terrorist-organization/) - Iran's Revolutionary Guard to be declared terrorist organization. Post-ISIS, Bolton's "Sunni-stan" proposal needs to be addressed.
- [Before hurricane, Puerto Rico already dysfunctional](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/before-hurricane-puerto-rico-already-dysfunctional/) - Before hurricane, Puerto Rico already dysfunctional. New Deal braintruster Rexford Tugwell played major role in creating dependency culture
- [Codevilla Calls for Measures Against Iran](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/codevilla-calls-for-measures-against-iran/) - Intelligence and foreign policy expert Angelo Codevilla has outlined key steps for the Trump administration to take to counter Iran:
- [Bolton Calls for Korean Unification Negotiations as War Alternative](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/bolton-calls-for-korean-unification-negotiations-as-war-alternative/) - John Bolton urges U.S. and China to negotiate the unification of the Korean peninsula -- as alternative to war
- [Bolton Calls for New Sunni State](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/bolton-calls-for-new-sunni-state/) - John Bolton calls for creation of a Sunni state in southern Syria and western Iraq and a revised policy toward Iraq, the Kurds, and Russia.
- [New Trump tariffs on $200 bn. of Chinese imports will hit US consumers directly](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/new-trump-tariffs-on-200-bn-of-chinese-imports-will-hit-us-consumers-directly/) - The planned Trump tariffs on $200 bn of Chinese imports will hit US consumers directly, unlike the previous tariffs on producer goods.
- [Sunday (10/15/2017) Trump may repeat Smoot-Hawley disaster](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/trump-may-repeat-smoot-hawley-disaster/) - Trump may repeat Smoot-Hawley disaster. Current account more important. Decline in manufactures preceded NAFTA
- [Saturday (10/14/2017) Russians sowed Left-Right hatred on Facebook](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/russians-sowed-left-right-hatred-on-facebook/) - Russians sowed Left-Right hatred on Facebook. Special Counsel Mueller probe biased, the revelations suggest.
- [Friday (10/13/2017) - North Korean EMP attack on U.S. would kill 90-percent](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/north-korean-emp-attack-on-us-would-kill-90-percent/) - North Korean EMP attack could shut down U.S. electric power grid, kill 90 percent of population within a year
- [Thursday (10/12/2017) China goes corporatist, Trump deregulates, other news](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/china-goes-corporatist-trump-deregulates/) - China goes corporatist, forcing merger of party, state and private sector.Trump deregulates, his enemies explore impeachment.
- [China's leaders fear unrest; Trump de-regulates energy, re-regulates trade](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/chinas-leaders-fear-unrest-trump-de-regulates-energy/) - China's leaders fear unrest in H.K., Tibet, Xinjiang; Trump de-regulates energy, seeks pro-growth tax policy, but re-regulates trade.
- [Bolton calls for U.S. to support Kurdish independence - and other news](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/bolton-calls-for-support-of-kurdish-independence/) - Bolton calls for support of Kurdish independence, blasts State Department, says Sunnis in Iraq and Syria need own state.
- [No real difference between Obama and Trump in foreign policy - and other news](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/no-real-difference-between-obama-and-trump/) - Trump is noisier perhaps. Otherwise there's "no real difference between Obama and Trump" in foreign policy, columnist Caroline Glick writes.
- [Boeing war vs Bombardier innovation - and other news](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/boeing-war-vs-bombardier/) - Boeing war vs Bombardier innovation. If administration backs Boeing, Delta, other U.S. airlines, and U.S. air travelers will be hurt.
- [Who lost Saudi Arabia? - and other news](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/who-lost-saudi-arabia/) - Who lost Saudi Arabia? Saudis mend fences with Russia, buy its military gear, entertain Iraqi Shiites, nurture pro-Saudi Qatari successor.
- [EU-Catalan crisis; other news not to be missed](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/eu-catalan-crisis-and-other-separatism/) - EU-Catalan crisis may trigger other EU separatism. Republican donors rebel, new tax plan splits emerge. Princeton Arts. Plagiarism charged.
- ["Keep moving" & other not-to-be missed news items](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/2017-10-05-keep-moving/) - The best advice for neuron growth and interconnections is to "keep moving" -- exercise. 40% of cancers are now linked to obesity.
- [Wednesday's news (10/4/2017) - Administration foreign policy a disaster](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/2017-10-04-administration-foreign-policy-a-disaster/) - Administration foreign policy a disaster: China, Russia, Kurdistan, Iran, Egypt, and Palestine specifically. Tillerson too.
- [Tuesday's news (10/3/2017) - Democrats' call for immediate gun control rejected](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/2017-10-03-democrats-call-for-immediate-gun-control-rejected/) - Democrats' call for immediate gun control rejected. Shooter may have used bump stocks. CBS fires executive who mocked victims as likely Republicans.
- [Monday's news (10/2/2017) - Journal faults FEMA's P.R. planning, wants full Jones Act repeal](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/mondays-news-2017-10-02-journal-faults-fema-p-r-planning/) - journal-faults-fema-p-r-planning-wants-full-jones-act-repeal. Union truckers blamed for not delivering containers piling up at ports
- [Sunday's news (10/1/2017) - Eliminating the medical deduction a bad idea](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/2017-10-01-eliminating-the-medical-deduction-a-bad-idea/) - Eliminating the medical deduction a bad idea. Phasing out the mortgage deduction and eliminating the charitable deduction would raise more money.
- [Today's news (9/30/2017) - Tax filing simplified for millions](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/todays-news-2017-09-30/) - Republican tax framework: tax filing simplified; Democrats' charge of tax increases for poor and tax giveaways for rich are not true, even on static basis.
- [Friday's news (9/29/2017) - Some Republicans already bailing on tax plan](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/2017-09-29-tax-plan-unrest/) - Republicans debating tax plan's repeal of state and local tax deduction; opposition to NFL; SpaceX plans for Mars, faster international air travel
- [Thursday's news (9/28/2017) - Mixed verdict for tax plan outline](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/thursdays-news-2017-09-28/) - Administration's tax plan has growth features but could have been better.
- [Today's news (9/27/2017) - Republican establishment fearful after Alabama loss](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/todays-news-2017-09-27/) - Moderate Republicans expect primary challenges. Meanwhile, pushback against Russian and Chinese subversion and mercantilism are badly needed.
- [Today's news (9/26/2017) -- Kurds vote independence, Turkey threatens](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/todays-news-2017-09-26-kurds-vote-for-independence/)
- [Monday's news (9/25/2017) - Right gains in Germany - China ready for N. Korean occupation](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/mondays-news-2017-09-25/)
- [Sunday's news (9/24/2017)](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/sundays-news-2017-09-24/) - Today's news: backlash against pro players' support for Black Lives Matter, Kardashians, tattoos. Extra-galactic cosmic rays confirmed.
- [Saturday's news (9/23/2017)](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/saturdays-post-2017-09-23/)
- [Friday's news (9/22/2017)](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/fridays-news-9222017/)
- [Sunday (1-14-2018) Principles of a good immigration policy outlined: guest workers, merit-based entry, not restrictionist](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/sunday-1-14-2018-principles-of-a-good-immigration-policy-outlined-guest-workers-merit-based-entry-not-restrictionist/) - The principles underlying a good immigration policy are outlined. Illegal entry would be sharply reduced through a generous guest worker program, entry would be merit-based, chain immigration and lotteries would be ended, and shared federal-state administration would regulate the numbers admitted.
- [Trade war with China has officially begun; allies also retaliating](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/trade-war-with-china-has-officially-begun-allies-also-retaliating/) - Trade war with China has officially begun; US allies are also retaliating. Neither side shows any signs of backing down.
- [President's Space Force strongly endorsed by Angelo Codevilla](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/presidents-space-force-strongly-endorsed-by-angelo-codevilla/) - Missile-defense expert Angelo Codevilla endorses President Trump's call for a new, sixth military branch, the Space Force.
- [President unconcerned about WTO fate, 20-25% foreign car tariffs](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/president-unconcerned-about-wto-fate-20-25-foreign-car-tariffs/) - President Trump is unconcerned about the WTO's future and threatening 20-25% tariffs on foreign car and parts imports, hurting major US allies
- [Trump escalates trade threats against China but priorities unclear](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/trump-escalates-trade-threats-against-china-but-priorities-unclear/) - Trump escalates trade threats against China but priorities unclear and go-it-alone approach thought likely to fail
- [Mexico should take in the migrants or stop their passage to the US](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/mexico-should-take-the-migrants-or-stop-their-passage-to-the-us/) - Mexico should take the migrants or stop their passage to the US. But on the US side, we need a good guest worker program to fill worker gaps.
- [Trade war threat beginning to damage global markets and investments](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/trade-war-threat-beginning-to-damage-global-markets-and-investments/) - The simultaneous US tariff assault on allies as well as China has begun to noticeably damage global markets.
- [As G7 ends, President Trump opposes allies rather than concerting measures against China](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/president-trump-opposes-allies-rather-than-concerting-measures-against-china/) - As G7 Summit ends, President Trump decides to oppose allies rather than concerting measures with them against China.
- [Promising Alzheimer's and Parkinson's research and the diabetes link](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/promising-alzheimers-and-parkinsons-research-and-the-diabetes-link/) - Promising research on Alzheimer's and Parkinson's disease has been published in the past week, together with its diabetes link
- [President Trump refutes "big bark, little bite" predictions; angers allies](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/president-trump-refutes-big-bark-little-bite-predictions-angers-allies/) - US trade policy announced over the past week has answered the key trade question of whether President Trump is “big-bark–little-bite” and would ultimately back off from acting on his stated trade policy preferences and his peculiar understanding of how the trading economy works: No.
- [Congress, business, allies protest Administration's security rationale for tariffs on auto imports](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/congress-business-allies-protest-administrations-security-rationale-for-tariffs-on-auto-imports/) - Congress, business, and US allies are protesting the Administration's national security rationale for threatening to impose tariffs on imports of autos and auto parts. The auto industry didn't ask for such tariffs and opposes them. It would disrupt their supply chains and increase consumer prices,
- [US-China trade war on hold, no NAFTA deal yet, allies unhappy](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/us-china-trade-war-on-hold-no-nafta-deal-yet-allies-unhappy/) - A threatened US-China trade war is momentarily on hold; there's no NAFTA deal yet, despite a missed deadline; and US allies are unhappy -- but so are many US politicians and business constituencies.
- [Thursday's news (9/21/2017)](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/thursdays-news-2017-09-21/)
- [Wednesday's news (9/20/2017)](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/wednesdays-news-2017-09-20/)
- [Tuesday's news (9/19/2017)](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/tuesdays-n2017-09-19/)
- [Monday's news (9/18/2017)](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/mondays-news-2017-09-18/)
- [Sunday's news (9/17/2017)](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/sundays-news-2017-09-17/)
- [Saturday's news (9/16/2017)](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/saturdays-news-2017-09-16/)
- [Friday's news (9/15/2017)](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/fridays-news-2017-09-15/)
- [Thursday's news (9/14/2017)](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/thursdays-news-2017-09-2017/)
- [Wednesday's news (9/13/2017)](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/wednesdays-news-2017-09-13/)
- [Tuesday's news (9/12/2017)](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/tuesdays-news-2017-09-12/)
- [Monday's news (9/11/2017)](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/mondays-news-9112017/)
- [Sunday's news (9/10/2017)](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/sundays-news-9102017/)
- [Saturday's news (9/9/2017)](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/saturdays-news-2017-09-09/)
- [Friday's news (9/8/2017)](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/fridays-news-20170908/)
- [Thursday's news (9/7/2017)](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/thursdays-news-972017/)
- [Wednesday's news (9/6/2017)](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/wednesdays-news-962017/)
- [Tuesday's news (9/5/2017)](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/tuesdays-news-952017/)
- [Monday's news (9/4/2017)](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/mondays-news-2017-09-04/)
- [Sunday's news (9/3/2017)](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/sundays-news-932017/)
- [Saturday's news (9/2/2017)](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/saturdays-news-2017-09-02/)
- [Why a date with Mary Jane is not such a great idea](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/marijuana-health-risks/)
- [Friday's news (9/1/2017)](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/fridays-news-2017-09-01/)
- [Trump’s “Make America Better” tax speech](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/trumps-make-america-better-tax-speech/)
- [Thursday's news (8/31/2017)](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/thursdays-news-2017-08-31/)
- [Wednesday's news (8/30/2017)](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/wednesdays-news-2017-08-30/)
- [Tuesday's news (8/29/2017)](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/tuesdays-news-20170829/)
- [Monday's news (8/28/2017)](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/mondays-news-20170828/)
- [Sunday's News (8/27/2017)](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/sundays-news-8272017/)
- [Saturday's news (8/26/2017)](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/2017-08-26/)
- [Friday's news (8/25/2017)](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/fridays-news-8252017/)
- [Thursday's news (8/24/2017)](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/thursdays-news-2017-08-24/)
- [Wednesday's news (8/23/17)](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/wednesdays-news-82317/)
- [Tuesday's news (8/22/2017)](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/tuesdays-news-8222017/)
- [How teachers unions impoverish teachers](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/teachers-unions-impoverish-teachers/)
- [Monday's news (8/21/2017)](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/mondays-news-8212017/)
- [Is the U.S. Navy asleep at the wheel?](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/u-s-navy-asleep-wheel/)
- [Sunday's news (8/20/2017)](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/sundays-news-not-missed/)
- [Saturday's news (8/19/2017)](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/saturdays-news-not-missed/)
- [A weapon against political grandstanding by CEOs](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/weapon-political-grandstanding-ceos/)
- [Friday's news (8/18/2017)](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/angelo-codevilla-dont-blindly-trust-generals/)
- [Taliban seizes control of U.S.](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/taliban-seizes-control-u-s/)
- [Thursday's news (8/17/2017)](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/thursday-news-not-missed/)
- [Wednesday's news (8/16/2017)](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/wednesday-news-not-missed/)
- [Tuesday's news (8/15/17)](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/tuesdays-news-items-not-missed/)
- [Monday news (8/14/2017)](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/monday-news-items-might-missed/)
- [Saturday's news (8/12/2017)](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/saturdays-news-items-not-missed/)
- [2018 Party Platform?](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/2018-party-platform/)
- [Americas now believed first settled by boat people](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/americas-now-believed-first-settled-boat-people/)
- [Claim Russia hacked DNC exposed as "deep state" fraud](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/claim-russia-hacked-dnc-exposed-deep-state-fraud/)
- [Neutrinos hint at missing anti-matter](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/neutrinos-hint-missing-anti-matter/)
- [Obama admin hid N Korea weapons advance from public](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/obama-admin-hid-n-korea-weapons-advance-public/)
- [Why does atheist China have Muslim and Buddhist allies?](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/why-does-atheist-china-have-muslim-and-buddhist-allies/) - Why are Muslim and Buddhist countries allies of an atheist China that murders their co-religionists? Chinese persecution of Muslims in its Uighur Muslim population in Xinjiang is disgraceful and extreme.Its persecution of Tibetan Buddhists is second only to its persecution of Muslims.
- [NAFTA deadline looms, President flips on ZTE, Congress mulls defenses](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/nafta-deadline-looms-president-flips-on-zte-congress-mulls-defenses/) - House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI) announced that he considers May 17th the final day for the Administration to submit a NAFTA agreement to Congress. The President seems to be reversing himself on sanctions vs China's ZTE telecom company. Auto and farm businesses are rebeling vs Admin tariff approach.
- [Google's blatant bias shown in search engine comparison](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/googles-blatant-bias-shown-in-search-engine-comparison/) - Many readers have doubtless noticed the bias of the results returned by Google's search engine when the topic is political. Today I decided to do a controlled experiment. In Founders Broadsheet's case, Google isn't even bothering to relegate it to a later results page. It's deliberately suppressing it!
- [First trade talks with China fail; Cold War the new reality](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/first-trade-talks-with-china-fail-cold-war-the-new-reality/) - The US delegation sent to China this past week presented a collection of hard-line trade and investment demands that Beijing won't agree to, and it received in return hard-line Chinese demands that Washington won't agree to. But China is now a fascist dictatorship and the Cold War enemy of the free world.
- [US postponing tariffs by month but not for TPP leader Japan](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/us-postponing-tariffs-by-month-but-not-for-tpp-leader-japan/) - At the very last moment Monday night, the Trump administration announced that it will be postponing for another month its threatened tariffs against the EU, its two NAFTA partners (Canada and Mexico), and Argentina, Australia, and Brazil -- but not Japan. On Thursday, major US officials head to China.
- [President Trump's non-Bismarckian, Kaiser Wilhelm II trade strategy](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/president-trumps-non-bismarckian-kaiser-wilhelm-ii-trade-strategy/) - President Trump is continuing his two-front trade war – battling allies and China at the same time. The President’s trade policy might be called a non-Bismarckian or “Kaiser Wilhelm II” approach, after the two-front war that Germany pursued in World Wars I and II, with not so happy outcomes for Germany.
- [What to do about China as an existential threat to the US and other free nations?](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/what-to-do-about-china-as-an-existential-threat-to-the-us-and-other-free-nations/) - China, a totalitarian dictatorship, will soon be an existential military threat to the US. At 1.34 billion inhabitants, it is four times larger in population than the US with its 311 million. A greater population means greater wealth and power once a nation industrializes.
- [US rejoining TPP to counter China is desirable but won't be easy](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/us-rejoining-tpp-to-counter-china-is-desirable-but-wont-be-easy/) - US rejoining TPP to counter China is desirable but won't be easy. President Trump's forthoming meeting with Japanese Prime Minister Abe could help work out a road map for US re-entry.
- [President Trump's Best of Weeks, Worst of Weeks](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/president-trumps-best-of-weeks-worst-of-weeks/) - It was President Trump's best of weeks and his worst of weeks.
- [Trump administration split over goal of tariffs vs Chinese imports](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/trump-administration-split-over-goal-of-tariffs-vs-chinese-imports/) - The Trump administration is split regarding the goal of its $50 bn. in threatened tariffs against Chinese imports. Some officials want reduce the trade imbalance favoring China. Others want to orient the Chinese economy away from state capitalism and protect US intellectual property.
- [Winter and spring colder than usual? Here's why](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/winter-and-spring-colder-than-usual-heres-why/) - 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.
- [China retaliates against US with tariffs hitting Midwest farmers](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/china-retaliates-against-us-with-tariffs-hitting-midwest-farmers/) - China is retaliating against President Trump's tariffs on aluminum and steel imports by imposing its own tariffs against 128 US imports, including hogs, fruits, and scrap steel. Midwest farmers are the main US producers affected. China is also expected to hit back against forthcoming US actions..
- [China's totalitarian dictatorship under Chairman Xi aims for world domination](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/chinas-totalitarian-dictatorship-under-chairman-xi-aims-for-world-domination/) - China's totalitarian dictatorship under Chairman Xi aims for world domination. This is the compelling, unavoidable message of Steven Mosher's recent book, Bully of Asia: Why China's Dream is the New threat to World Order.
- [Basic economics says the Trump tariffs won't affect the US trade balance in the least](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/basic-economics-says-the-trump-tariffs-wont-affect-the-us-trade-balance-in-the-least/) - The Trump Administration brought a bit more clarity to the “national security” tariffs being imposed on steel and aluminum. Korea and the US have now settled, and the US and China are negotiating. But basic economics says the Trump tariffs won't improve the US trade deficit in the least.
- [The revolution in climate science you probably haven't heard of](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/the-revolution-in-climate-science-you-probably-havent-heard-of/) - Henrik Svensmark discovered the relation between cosmic rays, the sun's magnetic field, the earth's cloud cover, and the climate changes produced by the changing clouds. His theory, unlike the IPCC's, can explain three billion years of changing climates on Earth
- [Does Trump wish to destroy the WTO? Will he heed Kudlow or Navarro?](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/does-trump-wish-to-destroy-the-wto-will-he-heed-kudlow-or-navarro/) - President Trump reportedly wants tariffs that are reciprocal product-by-product and country-by-country. That would destroy the World Trade Organization (WTO), which is based on most-favored nation (MFN) tariffs (a low tariff on a given product extended to one member extends to all members).
- [Europe's troubles, Putin's hope, a justifiable Trump tariff intervention](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/europes-troubles-putins-hope-a-justifiable-trump-tariff-intervention/) - Europe's troubles, Putin's hope, a justifiable Trump tariff: In the face of Russian President Putin's hope of dissolving NATO, the administration is threatening to exempt from the tariffs only the European countries that are meeting the President Trump's demand to dedicate at least 2% of GDP to defense.
- [Tariff exclusions create complications for Trump and Republican allies](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/tariff-exclusions-create-complications-for-trump-and-republican-allies/) - Tariff exclusions for Canada and Mexico are creating complications for Trump and Republicans. Japan, Australia, and the EU believe that President Trump's exclusion rationale applies equally to them.
- [President bends slightly to pro-trade Republicans; conservatives come out in opposition](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/president-bends-slightly-to-pro-trade-republicans-conservatives-come-out-in-opposition/) - President Trump bent slightly his severe steel and aluminum tariffs to temporarily exclude Canada and Mexico but left other allied nations still exposed. The President's protectionist tariffs provoked a storm of protests from pro-trade Republicans and provoked movement conservatives to united opposition
- [Trump tariffs freeze investments, split Republicans, hurt allies, boost China](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/trump-tariffs-freeze-investments-split-republicans-hurt-allies-boost-china/) - President Trump announced 25 aluminum tariffs in the name of military security. The tariffs threaten to freeze US investments, split Republicans, hurt US allies (especially Canada), and boost the influence of China. Most Democrats, however, support the tariffs.
- [US, European, Japanese markets down sharply after tariff announcement](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/us-european-japanese-markets-down-sharply-after-tariff-announcement/) - US, European, Japanese markets down sharply after Trump's tariff announcement. As we went to press, US stocks had opened sharply lower; European markets were down 1 to 2. Meanwhile Trump declared this morning that "Trade wars are good."
- [Norway, Trudeau, Italian elections, Netanyahu's plight, trade decisions on hold](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/norway-trudeau-italian-elections-netanyahus-plight-trade-decisions-on-hold/) - We cover today the Italian elections, Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu under fire, the suspenseful US trade situation, and for levity, Norway's Olympic triumphs and Prime Minister Trudeau's hitherto unsuspected talents at make-believe.
- [Republicans, Trump cave on guns; Mueller plagiarizes Russian journalists](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/republicans-trump-cave-on-guns-mueller-plagiarizes-russian-journalists/) - Today we cover four headline issues: (1) Republicans capitulating on gun laws post-Parkland; (2) reports on aerobics and cognition; also transgender policy; (3) several Russian collusion shockeroos; (4) a breakthrough on pipeline cooperation between frequent enemies Afghanistan, Pakistan, and India.
- [School schootings, SpaceX reactions, trade war threat](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/school-schootings-spacex-reactions-trade-war-threat/) - Three important developments since our previous issue: policy recommendations following the Parkland, FL school shootings; international reactions to the SpaceX Falcon rocket; and the trade war threat of the Commerce Department's recommended steel and aluminum tariffs and import quotas.
- [Mainstream media are lying about Mueller's indictment of thirteen Russians](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/mainstream-media-are-lying-about-muellers-indictment-of-thirteen-russians/) - Mainstream media are lying about Mueller's indictment of thirteen Russians. What the indictments of the thirteen and their documented activities actually show is that the Russians sought to discredit all the presidential candidates but Clinton when she was ahead and Trump when he won.
- [Our military and intelligence establishment is not using its tax dollars well](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/our-military-and-intelligence-establishment-is-not-using-its-tax-dollars-well/) - Our military and intelligence establishment is not using its tax dollars well -- nor our educational bureaucracies
- [China is gaining on the United States. What is the US doing about it?](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/china-is-gaining-on-the-united-states-what-is-the-us-doing-about-it/) - China is gaining on the United States. What is the US doing about it?
- [Mindfulness, sugar & Alzheimer's, Medicaid & opioids, ibuprofen & men](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/mindfulness-sugar-alzheimers-medicaid-opioids-ibuprofen-men/) - Today's focus is on four recent health reports of interest: on mindfulness, sugar and Alzheimer's, the hitherto unsuspected contribution of Medicaid to the opioid epidemic, and the danger to men of prolonged ibuprofen use.
- [Despite export boom, US tax cuts and deficit will increase imports over exports, threatening ill-considered administrative protectionism](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/despite-export-boom-us-tax-cuts-deficits-will-increase-imports-exports-threatening-ill-considered-administrative-protectionism/) - Despite export boom, US tax cuts and deficits will increase imports over exports, threatening ill-considered administrative protectionism
- [Saturday (12/16/2017) US losing technology superiority, could lose next war](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/us-could-lose-next-war/) - US losing technological superiority, could lose next war. Space-based missile defense, 355 ship navy urgently needed.
- [Sunday (12/17/2017) Trump administration drops global warming as national security threat, will form Red Team to challenge climate alarmists](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/trump-admin-dropping-global-warming-as-national-security-threat/) - Trump administration drops global warming as national security threat and is recruiting a Red Team to challenge climate alarmists
- [Trump National Security Strategy interlocks with trade policy shift](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/trump-national-security-strategy-interlocks-with-trade-policy-shift/) - President Trump's just-announced National Security Strategy interlocks with a shift in his administration's trade policy to plurilateralism. 
- [Tuesday (12/19/2017) Who leads the West, Trump or Merkel? He has a historic tax victory. She can't form a government.](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/tuesday-12-19-2017-who-leads-the-west-trump-or-merkel/) - Who leads the West, Trump or Merkel? He has a historic tax victory, new conservative governments on 4 continents. She can't form her own.
- [Wed-Sun (2/7-11/2018) Cash-starved military gets funds but budget deal shows high cost of bipartisanship](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/wed-sun-2-7-11-2018-military-gets-funds-but-budget-deal-shows-high-cost-of-bipartisanship/) - Cash-starved military gets funds but budget deal shows high cost of bipartisanship. Stock market correction was event waiting to happen, given anticipated end of Fed's policy of financial repression. Polls show Americans believe Justice-FBI officials improperly spied on Trump campaign.
- [Mon.-Tues. (Feb. 5-6, 2018) Weak dollar, trade protectionism the two big things that threaten the improving US economy](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/mon-tues-feb-5-6-2018-weak-dollar-trade-protectionism-the-two-big-things-that-threaten-the-improving-us-economy/) - Forbes: "Two big things threaten the improving U.S. economy: a weak dollar and trade protectionism." Codevilla: Rogue FBI officials should be prosecuted, FISA courts abolished. SpaceX's Falcon Heavy launch largely successful, reignites US enthusiasm for space exploration.
- [Sunday (2/4/2018) Trump approval +10%; nuke, navy, ABM growth urgent](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/sunday-2-4-2018-trump-approval-10-nuke-navy-abm-growth-urgent/) - President Trump has received a 10), Monmouth (44%). A military buildup is urgently needed without breaking budget: Infrastructure, farm bill, and paid family leave should be deferred. Nunez memo makes its points powerfully.
- [President's SOTU provided good summary of past year's accomplishments](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/presidents-sotu-provided-good-summary-of-past-years-accomplishments/) - President Trump's State of the Union (SOTU) address last night provided a good summary of his administration's many accomplishments in his first year of office. But there are a few shortcomings in the administration's future plans.
- [So far, President Trump's protectionism has been hurting allies, not China, and bailing out Wall Street](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/president-trumps-protectionism-has-been-hurting-allies-more-than-china/) - So far, President Trump's protectionism has been hurting allies more than China, and bailing out Wall Street. The TPP is now alive minus the US, although President Trump at Davos said he might reconsider US participation under the right conditions.
- [Important news: President Trump is considering rejoining the Trans-Pacific Partnership](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/president-trump-is-considering-rejoining-the-trans-pacific-partnership/) - President Trump is considering rejoining the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP-11). The US International Trade Commission has ruled in favor of Canada's Bombardier against Boeing. The US economy is expected to be strong in 2018, with wages rising and heavy investment in automation investments.
- [Immigration fight: US to be Founders' constitutional republic or Democrats' Brave New World welfare state?](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/immigration-fight-us-to-be-founders-constitutional-republic-or-democrats-brave-new-world-welfare-state/) - Angelo Codevilla explains what is at stake in the immigration fight: Is the US to be the Founders' constitutional republic or the Democrats' Brave New World welfare state of captive clients?
- [Transpacific Partnership now live -- minus US. Trump on protectionist drive?](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/president-trump-launches-trade-protectionist-drive/) - President Trump launches trade-protectionist drive: China and South Korea the first to be hit. US uranium producers have also filed for protection.
- [What to do about Pakistan?](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/what-to-do-about-pakistan/) - What to do about US Cold War ally Pakistan? Pakistan is still supporting the Taliban because it fears India's domination of Afghanistan, which the US is encouraging. A better US policy would be to provide incentives to encourage growing Indian-Pakistan trust through joint infrastructure and trade
- [Canada files with WTO a global attack on US unfair-trade laws](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/monday-1-15-2018-canada-has-filed-new-wto-complaint-against-us-stunning-in-its-scope/) - Canada has filed a new World Trade Organization complaint against the US that is stunning in its scope. It targets in detail the way the US implements its unfair-trade laws, enumerating many practices that are at the core of US trade-remedy measures but that allegedly breach WTO rules.
- [China secretly aiding N Korea economy, nuclear missiles, snookering the US](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/china-secretly-aiding-n-korea-economy-nuclear-missiles-snookering-us/) - Leaked Chinese Communist Party Central Committee document reveals China snookering US, secretly aiding N Korea economy and its nuclear and intercontinental missile programs, while offering N Korea security guarantees if it complies with Chinese policy
- [Lunacy on the Left over repeated failed attempts to bring down Trump](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/lunacy-on-the-left-over-repeated-failed-attempts-to-bring-down-trump/) - The Democrats' repeated failed attempts to bring down President Trump are likely to result in indictments for the insiders who broke the law. The Left meanwhile makes fools of themselves, e.g., by falling for anti-Trump parodies, like the Twitter post that Trump loves watching gorillas fight.
- [This month is a decision month for President Trump on trade: China, allies, WTO, NAFTA at stake](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/month-decision-month-president-trump-trade-china-allies-wto-nafta-stake/) - This month is decision month for President Trump on trade. Relations with China, allies, the World Trade Organization (WTO), and NAFTA are at stake; also the US farm sector, auto manufacturers, and industries consuming steel, aluminum, and solar panels.
- [Thursday (01/11/2018) President Trump backs House Immigration Reform bill; hard right and hard left are critical](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/thursday-01-11-2018-president-trump-backs-house-immigration-reform-bill/) - President Trump backs House Immigration Reform bill. The hard right and left are critical. Kim Jong-un loves Michael Wolff's book. Private side should assume the risk in public-private partnerships. House and Congress seek surveillance safeguards but President and leaders reportedly oppose.
- [Wednesday (01/10/2018) Conservatives, Progressives, and the quest for a Theory of Everything](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/conservatives-progressives-and-the-quest-for-a-theory-of-everything/) - Today: Conservatives, Progressives, and Physics. Angelo Codevilla writes on how political correctness can, and now is, backfiring. The American Psychiatric Association reiterates its condemnation of "arm chair psychiatry." A physicist discusses a new-old effort to integrate gravity with quantum theory.
- [China using economic coercion to pick off key allies one by one as US stands by doing nothing or worse](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/china-using-economic-coercion-to-pick-off-key-allies-one-by-one/) - China using economic coercion to pick off key allies one by one as US stands by doing nothing or worse. US should join the Japan-led TPP successor to collectively defend individual members against Chinese coercion. The UK and EU should also be invited to join this economic defense organization.
- [Are protesters inside Iran receiving President's Trump's Twitter posts?](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/are-protesters-inside-iran-receiving-presidents-trumps-twitter-posts/) - Are protesters inside Iran receiving President's Trump's Twitter posts in support of their demonstrations, not to mention other factual news on both events in Iran and the outside world? The US has information services but so far they've sometimes echoed the dictators
- [US protectionist trade measures, Chinese retaliation, could trigger major stock market correction](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/us-protectionist-trade-measures-chinese-retaliation-trigger-major-stock-market-correction/) - US protectionist trade measures, Chinese retaliation, could trigger major stock market correction in January. Trump advisers are split between gung-ho protectionist faction and those advising caution so as not to damage the post-tax-reform economy.
- [Fourth day of spontaneous demonstrations against hated Iranian regime](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/fourth-day-of-spontaneous-demonstrations-against-hated-iranian-regime/) - Fourth day of spontaneous demonstrations against hated Iranian regime. NY Times and CNN delay coverage, then cover scheduled government demonstrations rather than spontaneous popular uprisings against the government. NY Times advises Trump to keep quiet like Obama did in 2009 Green Revolution.
- [Democrats' arms-control agenda and wishful thinking put US in present peril of ballistic missile destruction](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/democrats-arms-control-agenda-and-wishful-thinking-put-us-in-present-peril-of-ballistic-missile-destruction/) - Democrats' arms-control agenda and wishful thinking put US in present peril of ballistic missile destruction. A space-based ABM system can be deployed by shifting funds from not-needed items. US should set goal of dominating space, offshore balancing of enemies, not endless brush wars.
- [What should be done about this past year's wildfire crisis in the Northwest, West, and Southwest?](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/what-should-be-done-about-this-past-years-wildfire-crisis-in-the-northwest-west-and-southwest/) - What should be done about this past year's wildfire crisis in the Northwest, West, and Southwest? A good start would be local management, limiting environmentalist delays, fire-resistant structures and landscaping, settlement density guidelines, and private fire insurance.
- [Deregulation is Trump's great contribution to US economy beside tax bill, but trade policy threatens both economy and security strategy](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/deregulation-is-trumps-great-contribution-to-us-economy-beside-tax-bill-but-trade-policy-threatens-both-economy-and-security-strategy/) - Deregulation is Trump's great contribution to the US economy beside the just-passed tax bill. But his administration's trade policy threatens both the economy and the nation's security strategy.
- [2017 health research: saturated fat ok; alcohol not ok; racket sports, swimming better than running](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/2017-research-saturated-fat-ok-alcohol-not-ok-racket-sports-swimming-better-than-running/) - 2017 research: saturated fat ok; alcohol not ok; racket sports, swimming better than running; smart phones hurt cognition. Some of the research challenges longstanding orthodoxies (saturated fat bad, moderate wine good for you).
- [Sunday (12/24/2017) Mainstream media finally cover FBI corruption scandal, pretend it's just partisan smears coordinated by Trump](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/sunday-12-14-2017-mainstream-media-finally-cover-fbi-corruption-scandal-pretend-its-just-partisan-smears-coordinated-by-trump/) - Mainstream media finally cover the FBI corruption scandal that tried to prevent Trump's election. They pretend it's all just partisan smears coordinated by Trump and cover just fragments of the story. Meanwhile, Christians are murdered in Mideast, North Korea claims UN sanctions are acts of war.
- [Saturday (12/23/2017) Trump administration finally getting its foreign policy footing: Honduras, Ukraine, Israel](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/saturday-12-23-2017-trump-administration-finally-getting-its-foreign-policy-footing-honduras-ukraine-israel/) - The Trump administration is finally getting its foreign policy footing: endorsement of Honduras' re-elected president, lethal defensive weapons to the Ukraine, recognition of Jerusalem as Israel's capital over UN protests. The important Chinese/N. Korean threat remains.
- [Friday (12/21/2017) Democrats pillory Tax Cuts bill but fear middle class benefit and economic boom](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/friday-12-21-2017-democrats-pillory-tax-cuts-bill-but-fear-middle-class-benefit-and-economic-boom/) - Democrats pillory Tax Cuts bill but fear middle class benefit and economic boom
- [Thursday (12/21/2017) Should too-powerful Google, Facebook, Apple, Amazon, and Microsoft be broken up or regulated?](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/thursday-12-21-2017-should-too-powerful-google-facebook-apple-amazon-and-microsoft-be-broken-up-or-regulated/) - Should too-powerful Google, Facebook, Apple, Amazon, and Microsoft be broken up or regulated? Or left to face competition? Also, Obama-Hezbollah scandal, EU-Poland threat, political supervision of FBI and CIA, why The Resistance hopes Trump will fire Mueller (scandal is backfiring against Dems)
- [Friday (12/15/2017) Rubio almost scuttles GOP tax bill on verge of going to President for signing](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/rubio-almost-scuttles-gop-tax-bill/) - Rubio almost scuttles GOP tax bill on verge of going to President for signing
- [Thursday (12/14/2017) Jordan and Gowdy grill Rosenstein on Obama, DNC corruption of FBI](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/thursday-12-14-2017/) - Republican Congressmen Jim Jordan and Trey Gowdy grill Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein on Obama, DNC corruption of the FBI
- [Wednesday (12/13/2017)](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/moore-loss-likely-strange-victory-and-bannon-future/) - Moore's loss, likely Strange victory, Bannon's future. Home terrorists the greater problem. Tax cut to 37% for top bracket good for growth.
- [Tuesday (12/12/2017) Chain immigration and visa lottery produced both NY terrorists](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/chain-immigration-and-visa-lottery-produced-both-ny-terrorists/) - Chain immigration and visa lottery produced both NY terrorists; also helped reduce Green Cards for productive workers by more than half
- [Monday (12/11/2017) Trump wins provoke enemies to trot out #MeToo ladies in hope of impeachment](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/monday-12-11-2017/) - Trump wins provoke enemies to trot out #MeToo ladies in hope of impeachment. Japan-EU and trade deal and EU-Mercusur draft leave US behind
- [Sunday (12/10/2017) "Socialism with Chinese chacteristics" is National Socialism (Nazism)](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/socialism-with-chinese-characteristics-is-national-socialism-nazism/) - Chinese President Xi's vision of "socialism with Chinese characteristics" -- Isn't it really National Socialism (Nazism)?
- [Saturday (12/9/2017) Canada cancels $5.15 bn defense order from Boeing in retaliation for Commerce Dept's 300% duties on Bombardier](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/canada-cancels-5-15-bn-boeing-order-in-retaliation-for-bombardier-duties/) - Canada cancels $5.15 bn Boeing defense order in retaliation for Commerce Dept's 300% duties against Canada's Bombardier that Boeing requested
- [Friday (12/8/2017) Wall Street Journal joins Never Trump movement in calling for Moore defeat](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/friday-12-8-2017/) - Wall Street Journal joins Never Trump movement for Moore defeat. US recognition of Jerusalem reverses Obama policy, fights world anti-Semitism
- [Monday (10/16/2017) Despite Trump accomplishments, polls not budging](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/despite-trump-accomplishments-polls-not-budging/) - Despite Trump accomplishments, polls not budging, major media blamed
- [Tuesday (10/17/2017) Trump administration betrays Kurds](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/trump-administration-betrays-kurds/) - Trump administration betrays Kurds. Obama legacy, based on executive orders, is easily being reversed by Trump
- [Friday (10/27/2017) Space-based missile shield blocked by arms controllers](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/arms-controllers-block-missile-shield/) - US vulnerable to enemy ICBMs because space-based missile shield blocked by arms controllers; also lagging China in quantum computing, telecom
- [Thursday (12/7/2017) Progressives attempting coup against 2016 elections, imitating Confederacy](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/progressives-attempting-coup-against-2016-elections-imitating-confederacy/) - Progressives attempting a coup against 2016 elections, imitating Confederacy in 1860. Mueller investigation is the leading edge of the coup.
- [Sunday (11/5/2017) Saudi Crown Prince crushes coup threat, international implications](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/sunday-1152017-saudi-crown-prince-crushes-coup-threat-international-implications/) - Saudi Crown Prince crushes coup attempt, international implications. Iran behind missile attack on Riyadh. China increasing N. Korean support
- [Thursday (11/9/2017) Trump, Republicans suffer political shellacking nationwide](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/trump-republicans-suffer-political-shellacking-nationwide/) - Trump, Republicans: political shellacking nationwide. Brazile book: Dem press lied about Hillary's health. Codevilla: terrorism run by states
- [Wednesday (12/6/2017) Another anti-Trump partisan on Mueller team revealed](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/another-anti-trump-partisan-on-mueller-team-revealed/) - Another anti-Trump partisan on Mueller team revealed; Wall St Journal split; Saudi peace plan acceptable to Israel vs shopworn Kushner effort
- [Tuesday (12/5/2017) Blatant bias and corruption of top FBI, Justice, and Mueller officials](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/blatant-bias-and-corruption-of-top-fbi-justice-and-mueller-officials/) - Blatant bias and corruption of top FBI, Justice, and Mueller officials. Trump travel ban reinstated. Hollywood celebrates pro-pederasty film.
- [Monday (12/4/2017) US needs fifth service branch Space Corps for US preeminence in space](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/us-needs-fifth-service-branch-space-corps-for-us-preeminence-in-space/) - The US needs a fifth service branch -- a Space Corps -- to assure US preeminence in space for missile defense and other defense requirements
- [Sunday (12/3/2017) Kudlow: Vote for tax-cut plan, warts and all](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/kudlow-vote-for-tax-cut-plan-warts-and-all/) - Kudlow: Vote for tax-cut plan, warts and all. FBI: Mueller, Comey, Strzok, McCabe corrupted by Obama administration
- [Saturday (12/2/2017) US missile defense crippled; JCT, CBO predictions untrustworthy](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/us-missile-defense-crippled-jec-cbo-predictions-untrustworthy/) - US missile defense deliberately crippled by arms controllers. JCT, CBO tax bill predictions untrustworthy, 3-4% historical growth likely
- [Friday (12/01/2017) Replace Tillerson with Bolton, keep Pompeo at CIA](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/replace-tillerson-with-bolton-keep-pompeo-at-cia/) - Replace Tillerson with Bolton, keep Pompeo at CIA, Cotton in Senate to 2020. Bolton's policies are close to Trump's, Pompeo is needed at CIA
- [Thursday (11/30/2017) Why no all-out sanctions on Chinese banks financing Kim Jong-un regime?](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/why-no-all-out-sanctions-on-chinese-banks-financing-kim-jong-un-regime/) - Why no all-out sanctions on Chinese banks financing Kim Jong-un regime?
- [Wednesday (11/29/2017) North Korea decision time: deter or prevent](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/north-korea-decision-time-deter-or-prevent/) - North Korea decision time: deter or prevent. China forecloses the easy way. US enemies hope The Resistance will paralyze Trump admin action
- [Tuesday (11/28/2017) Moore defeat jeopardizes administration's judicial gains](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/moore-defeat-jeopardizes-administrations-judicial-gains/) - Moore defeat jeopardizes administration's judicial gains. Syria policy self-contradictory. CFPB a Trump win but Court blinks on military guns
- [Monday (11/27/2017) Joe Biden, the FBI, tax reform, and trade](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/joe-biden-the-fbi-tax-reform-and-trade/) - Joe Biden loves to fondle little girls. What good is the FBI? Growth from tax reform will reduce deficits if US doesn't undercut trade pacts.
- [Sunday (11/26/2017) Where things stand in the Mideast post-Sochi](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/where-things-stand-in-the-mideast-post-sochi/) - Where things stand in the Mideast post-Sochi; prostitutes of the US press; and the inevitability of species extinction
- [Saturday (11/25/2017) Qatar likely state sponsor of Sinai terrorist attack](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/qatar-likely-state-sponsor-of-sinai-terrorist-attack/) - Qatar likely state sponsor of Sinai terrorist attack. It sponsored Egypt's previous Muslim Brother government that President Sisi overthrew
- [Saturday (11/18/2017) Free trade popularity growing in both parties](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/free-trade-popularity-growing-in-both-parties/) - Free trade popularity is growing in both parties, US blue collar wages are rising, & China is angry WTO classifies it as "non-market economy"
- [Friday (11/24/2017) China seeks Indian Ocean naval domination, Co-Prosperity Sphere rerun](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/china-seeks-indian-ocean-naval-domination/) - China seeks Indian Ocean naval domination, Co-Prosperity Sphere rerun. Will Indo-Pacific alliance successfully counter?
- [Thursday (11/23/2017) Chinese terror state harvests prisoner body parts, transplants heads](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/chinese-harvests-body-parts-transplants-heads/) - Chinese terror state numerically rates citizen loyalty, condemns dissidents, harvests their body parts, promotes head transplants
- [Wednesday (11/22/2017) A hideous and desolate wilderness, full of wilde beasts and wilde men](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/wilderness-full-of-wilde-beasts-and-wilde-men/) - The pilgrims faced "A hideous and desolate wilderness, full of wilde beasts and wilde men." Thank agriculture and trade for tomorrow's feast!
- [Monday (11/20/2017) Trump's deregulation reforms second only to judicial picks](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/trumps-deregulation-reforms-second-only-to-judicial-picks/) - Trump's deregulation reforms second only to judicial picks. Petty Chinese trade concessions scorned. Attacks on Pres. Clinton aimed at Trump.
- [Tuesday (11/21/2017) German Chancellor Merkel a spent force](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/german-chancellor-merkel-a-spent-force/) - Frumpy German Chancellor Merkel is a spent force, but Europe's future now at risk from Russia-China-Iran-Turkey-N Korea axis of dictators
- [Sunday (11/19/2017) Trump to launch another failed Palestine peace plan?](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/trump-to-launch-another-failed-palestine-peace-plan/) - Groundhog Day! Trump to launch another failed Palestine peace plan at Israel's expense? Missile defense. Strangler may be a future murderer.
- [Friday (11/17/2017) Cold War Two Has Begun](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/cold-war-two-has-begun/) - Cold War Two has begun -- with China, Russia, and Iran as "Axis of Evil"
- [Thursday (11/16/2017) Climate hysterics don't believe their own bull](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/climate-hysterics-dont-believe-their-own-bull/) - Evidence indicates that climate hysterics don't believe their own bull. Senators criticize tax reform bill that flat tax would have avoided
- [Wednesday (11/15/2017) APEC: Trump presidency enormous gift for Chinese](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/apec-trump-presidency-enormous-gift-for-chinese/) - APEC leaders: Trump presidency has been an enormous gift for the Chinese. When Trump Puts 'America First,' Other Countries Put Us Last.
- [Tuesday (11/14/2017) Bolton sees Lebanon as almost Iran's now](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/bolton-sees-lebanon-as-almost-irans-now/) - Bolton sees Lebanon as almost Iran's now, Obama blamed, Trump faulted. EU sets up PESCO to increase military purchases, efficiency
- [Monday (11/13/2017) Iran nervous about Saudi next move](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/iran-nervous-about-saudi-next-move/) - Iran, accused of an act of war by Houthi missile attack on Riyadh, is nervous about a threatened Saudi next move, possbly in Lebanon
- [Sunday (11/12/2017) Codevilla on US ignorance of terrorism motives](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/codevilla-on-us-ignorance-of-terrorism-motives/) - Codevilla exposes US ignorance of terrorism motives. Obama embargoed bin Laden papers to save his Iran opening. More US missile defense?
- [Saturday (11/11/2017) Veterans Day, Rand Paul, Roy Moore, Republicans](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/veterans-day-rand-paul-roy-moore-republicans/) - Veterans Day background, Rand Paul vs NY Times brown journalism, rush to judgment vs Roy Moore, Republican protectionism as nationalism
- [Friday (11/10/2017) Contemptible media, corrupt agencies, amateur administration](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/contemptible-media-corrupt-agencies-amateur-administration/) - The US is plagued by contemptible media, corrupt agencies, and amateur administration. Tax reform is administration's last best hope.
- [Wednesday (11/8/2017) Democrats euphoric after Tuesday election romp](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/democrats-euphoric-after-tuesday-election-romp/) - Democrats euphoric after Tuesday election romp. Tax bill delays to blame? Too much deference to military a problem as well?
- [Tuesday (11/7/2017) Equal opportunity failure in the US military](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/equal-opportunity-failure-in-the-us-military/) - Equal opportunity failure in US military at time of great danger in E Asia. Democrats in disarray, scandal prone, reject higher law
- [Monday (11/6/2017) Trump admin's Mideast policies still Obama's](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/trump-admins-mideast-policies-still-obamas/) - Trump admin's Mideast policies still Obama's, Glick charges. Israel, Saudi Prince Mohammed bin Salman have Trump support but not his officials
- [Saturday (11/4/2017) Trump concerns on trip: N Korea, China, trade](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/trump-concerns-on-trip-n-korea-china-trade/) - Trump concerns on trip to five Asian nations: N Korea, China, trade. But killing the Trans-Pacific Partnership has weakened US prestige
- [Friday (11/3/2017) - Tax bill makes good on middle-class tax cut](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/tax-bill-makes-good-on-middle-class-tax-cut/) - Tax bill makes good on middle-class tax cut, indeed all income and marriage status groups the Tax Foundation examined
- [Thursday (11/2/2017) Trump gambles with Powell Fed chair appointment](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/trump-gambles-with-powell-fed-chair-appointment/) - President gambles with Powell as Fed chairman. Senate on confirmation spree. Russians use Dems' identity politics to manipulate Facebook
- [Wednesday (11/1/2017) NYC terrorist is Schumer Diversity Lottery immigrant](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/nyc-terrorist-is-schumer-diversity-lottery-immigrant/) - NYC Uzbek terrorist came as a Diversity Immigrant under a visa lottery program Chuck Schumer helped pass. Trump wants merit-based immigration
- [Tuesday (10/31/2017) No new Special Counsel please. One is already too many](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/no-new-special-counsel-please-one-is-already-too-many/) - No new Special Counsel please. One is already too many - South and north of the 38th parallel - China's global strategy - Trump's Asian trip.
- [Monday (10/30/2017) Mueller indicts Manafort to distract from Democrats' Russiagate](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/mueller-indicts-manafort-to-distract-from-democrats-russiagate/) - Mueller indicts Manafort to distract from Democrats' Russiagate. Indictments seem to have little to do with Russian collusion.
- [Thursday (10/26/2017) FBIGate is a bigger scandal than Watergate](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/fbigate-is-a-bigger-scandal-than-watergate/) - FBIGate is a bigger scandal than Watergate. House adopts Senate budget. Admin. moves ahead on opioid crisis; Mideast and India policy
- [Tuesday (10/24/2017) Republicans the gridlock not tax cutting party](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/republicans-the-gridlock-not-tax-cutting-party/) - Tax cutting? No, the Republicans' tax plan heads for gridlock. At best it might save a few features from the 1980s Hall-Rabushka plan.
- [Monday (10/23/2017) Japan's Abe wins big, thanks to Kim Jong-un's threats](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/japans-abe-wins-big-thanks-to-kim-jong-uns-threats/) - Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has just won a major electoral victory, thanks to N. Korean dictator Kim Jong-un's threats and missiles over Japan
- [Xi agenda: Taiwan invasion, trade theft, digital dictatorship, planned economy](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/xi-agenda-taiwan-war-trade-theft-digital-dictatorship-planned-economy/) - Xi agenda: Taiwan war, trade theft, digital dictatorship, planned economy. Also its satellite dictatorships (N. Korea, Myanmar, Cambodia)
- [Sunday (10/22/2017) Czech anti-EU anti-immigration parties win](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/czech-anti-eu-anti-immigration-parties-win/) - Czech anti-EU anti-immigration parties win, Austrian legislative election too. The Obama Administration’s Uranium One scandal.
- [Saturday (10/21/2017) Victory over ISIS merits a victory lap](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/victory-over-isis-merits-a-victory-lap/) - Victory over ISIS merits a victory lap. But one victory lap only, please! Mueller's over-protectiveness of all things FBI. E.D. Hirsch
- [Friday (10/20/2017) All wireless internet (WiFi) devices can now be hacked](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/all-wireless-internet-wifi-devices-can-now-be-hacked/) - All wireless internet (WiFi) devices can now be hacked. Trump to press: Real Russia story is Clinton-Obama uranium deal the media ignores.
- [Thursday (10/19/2017) Trump playing James Dean in NAFTA negotiations](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/trump-playing-james-dean-with-nafta/) - Trump playing James Dean in NAFTA negotiations. U.S. Mideast policy a mess. Latest Clinton scandal involves Russian grab of US uranium.

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- [IPCC](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/tag/ipcc/)
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- [Elon Musk](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/tag/elon-musk/)
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- [farm bill](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/tag/farm-bill/)
- [Iran deal (JCPOA)](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/tag/iran-deal-jcpoa/)
- [steel and aluminum tariffs](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/tag/steel-and-aluminum-tariffs/)
- [diabetes](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/tag/diabetes/)
- [insulin](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/tag/insulin/)
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- [Parkinson's disease](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/tag/parkinsons-disease/)
- [Theresa May](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/tag/theresa-may/)
- [Group of 7 Summit (G7)](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/tag/group-of-7-summit-g7/)
- [trade war](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/tag/trade-war/)
- [lumber](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/tag/lumber/)
- [dairy](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/tag/dairy/)
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- [Wilbur Ross](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/tag/wilbur-ross/)
- [Senate Finance Committee](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/tag/senate-finance-committee/)
- [auto tariffs](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/tag/auto-tariffs/)
- [Andrew Bacevich](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/tag/andrew-bacevich/)
- [David Ignatius](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/tag/david-ignatius/)
- [Jed Babbin](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/tag/jed-babbin/)
- [Brookings Institution](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/tag/brookings-institution/)
- [Alan Blinder](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/tag/alan-blinder/)
- [Stephen Moore](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/tag/stephen-moore/)
- [Trade Policy Review](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/tag/trade-policy-review/)
- [NGDP targeting](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/tag/ngdp-targeting/)
- [Federal Reserve](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/tag/federal-reserve/)
- [boom-bust cycles](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/tag/boom-bust-cycles/)
- [Orrin Hatch](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/tag/orrin-hatch/)
- [EU-Japan Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA)](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/tag/eu-japan-economic-partnership-agreement-epa/)
- [Nordstream 2](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/tag/nordstream-2/)
- [Qualcomm](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/tag/qualcomm/)
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- [European Commission President Juncker](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/tag/european-commission-president-juncker/)
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- [Megyn Kelly](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/tag/megyn-kelly/)
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- [stellarator](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/tag/stellarator/)
- [General Fusion Inc.](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/tag/general-fusion-inc/)
- [NCTM](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/tag/nctm/)
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- [R. James Milgram](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/tag/r-james-milgram/)
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- [Nancy Pelosi](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/tag/nancy-pelosi/)
- [2020 presidential election](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/tag/2020-presidential-election/)
- [Nigel Farage](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/tag/nigel-farage/)
- [Court of International Trade](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/tag/court-of-international-trade/)
- [American Institute for International Steel (AIIS)](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/tag/american-institute-for-international-steel-aiis/)
- [Chuck Grassley](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/tag/chuck-grassley/)
- [Judith Curry](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/tag/judith-curry/)
- [Freeman Dyson](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/tag/freeman-dyson/)
- [TPP-11](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/tag/tpp-11/)
- [IEEPA](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/tag/ieepa/)
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- [Dreamers](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/tag/dreamers/)
- [emergency decree](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/tag/emergency-decree/)
- [US Reciprocal Trade Act](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/tag/us-reciprocal-trade-act/)
- [Keith B. Payne](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/tag/keith-b-payne/)
- [Pentagon](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/tag/pentagon/)
- [AirForce](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/tag/airforce/)
- [Andrew Lambert](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/tag/andrew-lambert/)
- [Carthage](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/tag/carthage/)
- [Athens](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/tag/athens/)
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- [e-commerce](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/tag/e-commerce/)
- [Global Trade Accountability Act](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/tag/global-trade-accountability-act/)
- [Congressman Warren Davidson](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/tag/congressman-warren-davidson/)
- [Senator Sean Duffy](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/tag/senator-sean-duffy/)
- [T-Mobile](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/tag/t-mobile/)
- [Congressional Trade Authority Act](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/tag/congressional-trade-authority-act/)
- [Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/tag/sen-cindy-hyde-smith/)
- [Clintons](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/tag/clintons/)
- [Terry McAuliffe](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/tag/terry-mcauliffe/)
- [John Tamny](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/tag/john-tamny/)
- [Ambassador Gordon Sondland](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/tag/ambassador-gordon-sondland/)
- [UNCTAD](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/tag/unctad/)
- [German Chancellor Angela Merkel](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/tag/german-chancellor-angela-merkel/)
- [Senate Finate Committee chairman Chuck Grassley](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/tag/senate-finate-committee-chairman-chuck-grassley/)
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- [carousel tariffs](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/tag/carousel-tariffs/)
- [Nicolás Maduro](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/tag/nicolas-maduro/)
- [Juan Guaido](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/tag/juan-guaido/)
- [Cuba](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/tag/cuba/)
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- [Green New Deal](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/tag/green-new-deal/)
- [Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez (AOC)](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/tag/alexandra-ocasio-cortez-aoc/)
- [Club of Rome](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/tag/club-of-rome/)
- [Limits to Growth](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/tag/limits-to-growth/)
- [Thomas Malthus](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/tag/thomas-malthus/)
- [Ross McKitrick](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/tag/ross-mckitrick/)
- [fossil fuels](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/tag/fossil-fuels/)
- [WTO Dispute Settlement Body](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/tag/wto-dispute-settlement-body/)
- [rice](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/tag/rice/)
- [wheat](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/tag/wheat/)
- [corn](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/tag/corn/)
- [Halford Mackinder](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/tag/halford-mackinder/)
- [Heartland](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/tag/heartland/)
- [French President Macron](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/tag/french-president-macron/)
- [European Parliament](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/tag/european-parliament/)
- [agriculture](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/tag/agriculture/)
- [Lindsey Graham](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/tag/lindsey-graham/)
- [Special Olympics](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/tag/special-olympics/)
- [ACA ("Obamacare")](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/tag/aca-obamacare/)
- [US Court of International Trade (CIT)](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/tag/us-court-of-international-trade-cit/)
- [non-delegation doctrine](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/tag/non-delegation-doctrine/)
- [Federal Energy Administration v. Algonquin SNG Inc.](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/tag/federal-energy-administration-v-algonquin-sng-inc/)
- [steel tariff](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/tag/steel-tariff/)
- [intelligible principle](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/tag/intelligible-principle/)
- [homeless](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/tag/homeless/)
- [WTO Article 21](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/tag/wto-article-21/)
- [GATT](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/tag/gatt/)
- [Ukraine](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/tag/ukraine/)
- [Pakista](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/tag/pakista/)
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- [LNG](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/tag/lng/)
- [El Faro](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/tag/el-faro/)
- [Sen. Mike Lee](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/tag/sen-mike-lee/)
- [Open America’s Water Act of 2019](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/tag/open-americas-water-act-of-2019/)
- [Inuit](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/tag/inuit/)
- [polar bears](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/tag/polar-bears/)
- [insects](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/tag/insects/)
- [Iceland](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/tag/iceland/)
- [Maunder Minimum](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/tag/maunder-minimum/)
- [Market-economy status (MES)](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/tag/market-economy-status-mes/)
- [Non-market economy (NME)](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/tag/non-market-economy-nme/)
- [Antidumping (AD)](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/tag/antidumping-ad/)
- [Tariff-rate quota (TRQ)](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/tag/tariff-rate-quota-trq/)
- [loya jirga](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/tag/loya-jirga/)
- [Zalmay Khalilzad](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/tag/zalmay-khalilzad/)
- [IPBES](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/tag/ipbes/)
- [The Limits to Growth](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/tag/the-limits-to-growth/)
- [Robert Watson](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/tag/robert-watson/)
- [Garth Paltridge](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/tag/garth-paltridge/)
- [Anthony Watts](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/tag/anthony-watts/)
- [University of East Anglia](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/tag/university-of-east-anglia/)
- [Roy Spencer](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/tag/roy-spencer/)
- [Scott Morrison](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/tag/scott-morrison/)
- [Australian election of 2019](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/tag/australian-election-of-2019/)
- [Larry Diamond](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/tag/larry-diamond/)
- [Justin Amash](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/tag/justin-amash/)
- [conservatism](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/tag/conservatism/)
- [automotive tariffs](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/tag/automotive-tariffs/)
- [Edward Feser](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/tag/edward-feser/)
- [Friedrich Hayek](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/tag/friedrich-hayek/)
- [Michael Anton](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/tag/michael-anton/)
- [free markets](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/tag/free-markets/)
- [populist nationalism](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/tag/populist-nationalism/)
- [currency devaluation](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/tag/currency-devaluation/)
- [countervailing duties (CVDs)](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/tag/countervailing-duties-cvds/)
- [International Emergency Economic Powers Act of 1977](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/tag/international-emergency-economic-powers-act-of-1977/)
- [modern monetary theory (MMT)](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/tag/modern-monetary-theory-mmt/)
- [classical monetary theory](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/tag/classical-monetary-theory/)
- [Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/tag/florian-henckel-von-donnersmarck/)
- [Never Look Away](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/tag/never-look-away/)
- [Roma](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/tag/roma/)
- [The Lives of Others](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/tag/the-lives-of-others/)
- [A.O. Scott](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/tag/a-o-scott/)
- [Oscars](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/tag/oscars/)
- [David Epstein](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/tag/david-epstein/)
- [Maxwell Gladwell](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/tag/maxwell-gladwell/)
- [Outliers](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/tag/outliers/)
- [Amy Chua](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/tag/amy-chua/)
- [Range](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/tag/range/)
- [Hong Kong](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/tag/hong-kong/)
- [border crisis](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/tag/border-crisis/)
- [Tienanmen massacre](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/tag/tienanmen-massacre/)
- [Michael G. Vickers](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/tag/michael-g-vickers/)
- [deterrence](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/tag/deterrence/)
- [Spitzenkandidat](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/tag/spitzenkandidat/)
- [G20](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/tag/g20/)
- [Osaka](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/tag/osaka/)
- [farmer welfare](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/tag/farmer-welfare/)
- [WTO notification](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/tag/wto-notification/)
- [Spencer Morrison](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/tag/spencer-morrison/)
- [American Greatness](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/tag/american-greatness/)
- [Adam Smith](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/tag/adam-smith/)
- [David Ricardo](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/tag/david-ricardo/)
- [Ludwig von Mises](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/tag/ludwig-von-mises/)
- [division of labor](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/tag/division-of-labor/)
- [specialization](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/tag/specialization/)
- [Cecilia Malmstrom](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/tag/cecilia-malmstrom/)
- [John Pomfret](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/tag/john-pomfret/)
- [The China Order](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/tag/the-china-order/)
- [Lei-Ling Wang](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/tag/lei-ling-wang/)
- [France](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/tag/france/)
- [Digital Services Tax (DST)](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/tag/digital-services-tax-dst/)
- [Robert Zubrin](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/tag/robert-zubrin/)
- [NASA](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/tag/nasa/)
- [Lockheed Martin](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/tag/lockheed-martin/)
- [Jacob and Esau](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/tag/jacob-and-esau/)
- [Appellate Body](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/tag/appellate-body/)
- [First Things](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/tag/first-things/)
- [Patrick J. Deneen](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/tag/patrick-j-deneen/)
- [Yoram Hazony](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/tag/yoram-hazony/)
- [Enlightenment](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/tag/enlightenment/)
- [American Founding](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/tag/american-founding/)
- [Friends of the Earth](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/tag/friends-of-the-earth/)
- [Greenpeace](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/tag/greenpeace/)
- [Target Malaria](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/tag/target-malaria/)
- [Gates Foundation](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/tag/gates-foundation/)
- [genetic modification](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/tag/genetic-modification/)
- [Golden Rice](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/tag/golden-rice/)
- [nuclear energy](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/tag/nuclear-energy/)
- [Democratic Party](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/tag/democratic-party/)
- [racism](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/tag/racism/)
- [Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP)](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/tag/regional-comprehensive-economic-partnership-rcep/)
- [Oren Cass](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/tag/oren-cass/)
- [Elizabeth Warren](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/tag/elizabeth-warren/)
- [National Conservatism](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/tag/national-conservatism/)
- [inverted yield curve](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/tag/inverted-yield-curve/)
- [quantitative easing](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/tag/quantitative-easing/)
- [recession threat](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/tag/recession-threat/)
- [Fed role in recessions and the Depression](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/tag/fed-role-in-recessions-and-the-depression/)
- [dietary restriction](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/tag/dietary-restriction/)
- [time-limited feeding](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/tag/time-limited-feeding/)
- [fasting](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/tag/fasting/)
- [exercise](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/tag/exercise/)
- [milk](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/tag/milk/)
- [protein restriction](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/tag/protein-restriction/)
- [methionine restriction](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/tag/methionine-restriction/)
- [fluoride](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/tag/fluoride/)
- [IQ](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/tag/iq/)
- [proprionate](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/tag/proprionate/)
- [Jackson Hole](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/tag/jackson-hole/)
- [Brazil](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/tag/brazil/)
- [Sen. Elizabeth Warren](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/tag/sen-elizabeth-warren/)
- [Joe Biden](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/tag/joe-biden/)
- [Sen. Ron Wyden](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/tag/sen-ron-wyden/)
- [wealth tax](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/tag/wealth-tax/)
- [capital gains tax](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/tag/capital-gains-tax/)
- [Wall Street Tax Act](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/tag/wall-street-tax-act/)
- [gross receipts tax](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/tag/gross-receipts-tax/)
- [THAAD](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/tag/thaad/)
- [Patriot systems](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/tag/patriot-systems/)
- [space-based sensors](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/tag/space-based-sensors/)
- [Michael Griffin](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/tag/michael-griffin/)
- [Chinese economic data](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/tag/chinese-economic-data/)
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- [Taliban](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/tag/taliban/)
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- [Cardinal Timothy Dolan](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/tag/cardinal-timothy-dolan/)
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- [Uighurs](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/tag/uighurs/)
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- [OECD](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/tag/oecd/)
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- [BEPS](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/tag/beps/)
- [fake climate news](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/tag/fake-climate-news/)
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- [crop failure](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/tag/crop-failure/)
- [Build Back Better](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/tag/build-back-better/)
- [Associated Press](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/tag/associated-press/)
- [Benford test](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/tag/benford-test/)
- [2009 cap-and-trade bill (ACES)](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/tag/2009-cap-and-trade-bill-aces/)
- [William Nordhaus](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/tag/william-nordhaus/)
- [Michael Shellenberger](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/tag/michael-shellenberger/)
- [Bjorn Lomborg](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/tag/bjorn-lomborg/)
- [Senator James Risch](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/tag/senator-james-risch/)
- [International Working Group on Export Credits (IWGEC)](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/tag/international-working-group-on-export-credits-iwgec/)
- [vaccine patents](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/tag/vaccine-patents/)
- [export credits](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/tag/export-credits/)
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- [Holding Foreign Companies Accountable Act](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/tag/holding-foreign-companies-accountable-act/)
- [Wall Street financial community](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/tag/wall-street-financial-community/)
- [CNOOC](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/tag/cnooc/)
- [Katharine Tai](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/tag/katharine-tai/)
- [Pete Buttigieg](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/tag/pete-buttigieg/)
- [Treasury's currency manipulation report](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/tag/treasurys-currency-manipulation-report/)
- [Swiss franc](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/tag/swiss-franc/)
- [CPTPP](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/tag/cptpp/)
- [UK-EU Agreement](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/tag/uk-eu-agreement/)
- [China-EU Comprehensive Agreement on Investment (CAI)](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/tag/china-eu-comprehensive-agreement-on-investment-cai/)
- [countervailable environmental subsidies](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/tag/countervailable-environmental-subsidies/)
- [teachers unions](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/tag/teachers-unions/)
- [pandemic](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/tag/pandemic/)
- [Chicago Teachers Union](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/tag/chicago-teachers-union/)
- [UTLA](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/tag/utla/)
- [Gina Raimondo](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/tag/gina-raimondo/)
- [NY Stock Exchange](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/tag/ny-stock-exchange/)
- [George Senate runoff elections](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/tag/george-senate-runoff-elections/)
- [Capitol riot](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/tag/capitol-riot/)
- [Republican Party future](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/tag/republican-party-future/)
- [Brad W. Setzer](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/tag/brad-w-setzer/)
- [Larry Summers](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/tag/larry-summers/)
- [Janet Yellen](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/tag/janet-yellen/)
- [domestic-content rules](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/tag/domestic-content-rules/)
- [Keystone XL pipeline](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/tag/keystone-xl-pipeline/)
- [worker-centered trade policy](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/tag/worker-centered-trade-policy/)
- ["Buy American"](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/tag/buy-american/)
- [Jones Act](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/tag/jones-act/)
- [WTO Appelate Body](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/tag/wto-appelate-body/)
- [Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/tag/ngozi-okonjo-iweala/)
- [semiconductors](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/tag/semiconductors/)
- [technology standards](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/tag/technology-standards/)
- [anti-dumping duties](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/tag/anti-dumping-duties/)
- [government subsidies](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/tag/government-subsidies/)
- [Richard K. Vedder](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/tag/richard-k-vedder/)
- [Lowell E. Gallaway](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/tag/lowell-e-gallaway/)
- [Franklin Delano Roosevelt](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/tag/franklin-delano-roosevelt/)
- [New Deal](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/tag/new-deal/)
- [adjusted real wages](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/tag/adjusted-real-wages/)
- [US decoupling from China](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/tag/us-decoupling-from-china/)
- [solar cycles](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/tag/solar-cycles/)
- [Valentina Zharkova](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/tag/valentina-zharkova/)
- [John von Neumann](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/tag/john-von-neumann/)
- [physics-based theories](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/tag/physics-based-theories/)
- [parameterized models](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/tag/parameterized-models/)
- [Russian intelligence](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/tag/russian-intelligence/)
- [vaccines](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/tag/vaccines/)
- [Mathias Cormann](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/tag/mathias-cormann/)
- [universal welfare](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/tag/universal-welfare/)
- [American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 (ARPA)](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/tag/american-rescue-plan-act-of-2021-arpa/)
- [Scandinavian socialism](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/tag/scandinavian-socialism/)
- [universal basic income](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/tag/universal-basic-income/)
- [Canadian Pacific - Kansas City Southern merger](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/tag/canadian-pacific-kansas-city-southern-merger/)
- [HUGE](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/tag/huge/)
- [US border crisis](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/tag/us-border-crisis/)
- [Katherine Tai](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/tag/katherine-tai/)
- [industrial policy](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/tag/industrial-policy/)
- [Uyghurs](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/tag/uyghurs/)
- [Robert Redfield](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/tag/robert-redfield/)
- [Ján Veizer](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/tag/jan-veizer/)
- [William Happer](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/tag/william-happer/)
- [FY22 budget](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/tag/fy22-budget/)
- [global minimum tax](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/tag/global-minimum-tax/)
- [GILTI](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/tag/gilti/)
- [assignats](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/tag/assignats/)
- [American Jobs Plan (AJP)](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/tag/american-jobs-plan-ajp/)
- [taxation principle of territoriality](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/tag/taxation-principle-of-territoriality/)
- [inflation](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/tag/inflation/)
- [corporate tax](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/tag/corporate-tax/)
- [green energy](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/tag/green-energy/)
- [TRIPS](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/tag/trips/)
- [Victoria (Australia)](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/tag/victoria-australia/)
- [New Zealand](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/tag/new-zealand/)
- [Digital Service Tax (DST)](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/tag/digital-service-tax-dst/)
- [David Frum](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/tag/david-frum/)
- [SCRI (Supply Chain Initiative)](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/tag/scri-supply-chain-initiative/)
- [COVID-19 vaccines](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/tag/covid-19-vaccines/)
- [Stephen Koonin](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/tag/stephen-koonin/)
- [American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/tag/american-association-for-the-advancement-of-science-aaas/)
- [Sen. Mike Crapo (R-ID)](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/tag/sen-mike-crapo-r-id/)
- [Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX)](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/tag/sen-john-cornyn-r-tx/)
- [Sen. Ben Cardin (D-MD)](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/tag/sen-ben-cardin-d-md/)
- [Olympics 2022](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/tag/olympics-2022/)
- [Nord Stream 2](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/tag/nord-stream-2/)
- [Switzerland](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/tag/switzerland/)
- [dairy industry](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/tag/dairy-industry/)
- [Group of 7 (G7)](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/tag/group-of-7-g7/)
- [JCPOA (Iran agreement)](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/tag/jcpoa-iran-agreement/)
- [US Innovation & Competition Act](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/tag/us-innovation-competition-act/)
- [Sen. Tom Carper (D-Delaware)](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/tag/sen-tom-carper-d-delaware/)
- [Fit for 55](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/tag/fit-for-55/)
- [Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM)](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/tag/carbon-border-adjustment-mechanism-cbam/)
- [Emissions Trading System (ETS)](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/tag/emissions-trading-system-ets/)
- [dong](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/tag/dong/)
- [tires](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/tag/tires/)
- [digital trade agreement](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/tag/digital-trade-agreement/)
- [Australian trade minister Dan Tehan](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/tag/australian-trade-minister-dan-tehan/)
- [Trade Promotion Authority (TPA)](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/tag/trade-promotion-authority-tpa/)
- [USTR Katherine Tai](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/tag/ustr-katherine-tai/)
- [Secretary of State Antony Blinken](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/tag/secretary-of-state-antony-blinken/)
- [Section 301 tariffs](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/tag/section-301-tariffs/)
- [CBAM (carbon border tax)](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/tag/cbam-carbon-border-tax/)
- [Lysenko](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/tag/lysenko/)
- [Alfred Wegener](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/tag/alfred-wegener/)
- [continental drift](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/tag/continental-drift/)
- [plate tectonics](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/tag/plate-tectonics/)
- [eugenics](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/tag/eugenics/)
- [Oliver Wendell Holmes](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/tag/oliver-wendell-holmes/)
- [Tuskegee Study](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/tag/tuskegee-study/)
- [Lithuania](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/tag/lithuania/)
- [magnets](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/tag/magnets/)
- [industrial subsidies](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/tag/industrial-subsidies/)
- [AUKUS (Australia-UK-US strategic alliance)](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/tag/aukus-australia-uk-us-strategic-alliance/)
- [Five Eyes](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/tag/five-eyes/)
- [Gavin Newsom](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/tag/gavin-newsom/)
- [mask mandates](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/tag/mask-mandates/)
- [Hispanics](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/tag/hispanics/)
- [Huawei's Meng](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/tag/huaweis-meng/)
- [Chinese patent and IP theft](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/tag/chinese-patent-and-ip-theft/)
- [taxation](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/tag/taxation/)
- [ammunition](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/tag/ammunition/)
- [Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/tag/ports-of-los-angeles-and-long-beach/)
- [trucker shortage](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/tag/trucker-shortage/)
- [ASEAN summit](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/tag/asean-summit/)
- [Jake Sullivan](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/tag/jake-sullivan/)
- [DEPA](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/tag/depa/)
- ["Three Amigos" meeting](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/tag/three-amigos-meeting/)
- [USCC](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/tag/uscc/)
- [US investment in China](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/tag/us-investment-in-china/)
- [olives](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/tag/olives/)
- [Indo-Pacific](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/tag/indo-pacific/)
- [EV tax credits](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/tag/ev-tax-credits/)
- [European Commission (EC)](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/tag/european-commission-ec/)
- [Anti-Coercion Instrument (ACI)](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/tag/anti-coercion-instrument-aci/)
- [Managed trade](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/tag/managed-trade/)
- [UK](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/tag/uk/)
- [Common Agricultural Policy (CAP)](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/tag/common-agricultural-policy-cap/)
- [US farm protectionism](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/tag/us-farm-protectionism/)
- [Biden administration blunders](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/tag/biden-administration-blunders/)
- [600-ship Navy](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/tag/600-ship-navy/)
- [ability to fight a two-front war](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/tag/ability-to-fight-a-two-front-war/)
- [trade](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/tag/trade/)
- [crime](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/tag/crime/)
- [illegal immigration](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/tag/illegal-immigration/)
- [education](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/tag/education/)
- [Covid](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/tag/covid/)
- [elections](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/tag/elections/)
- [shortages](https://foundersbroadsheet.com/tag/shortages/)
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