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Blocking exports could hurt everyone

April 6, 2020 by Richard Schulman 1 Comment

The weekly trade report with L.C. The US Government got into a tussle with the 3M Company, maker of N95 medical masks. The quarrel stems from the Trump Administration’s desire of blocking exports of supplies needed in the COVID-19 fight. Using the powers available to it under the 1950 Defense Production Act (DPA), the administration […]

Filed Under: Trade  Tagged: export restrictions

Instant test for imbecility

April 5, 2020 by Richard Schulman Leave a Comment

by Richard Schulman Readers will be grateful to learn there’s now an 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®. Such an individual by way of cost savings could be replaced by an AI-powered robot. Few would notice the […]

Filed Under: Battle of Ideas  

Repudiate debt to China

April 2, 2020 by Richard Schulman 1 Comment

by Richard Schulman Founders Broadsheet seems to have been the first publication worldwide to call for holding China financially liable for the worldwide destruction of lives, employment, and wealth caused by the Wuhan virus. The response by some to that call was disbelief and ridicule. “Just try and collect it!”, “Sovereign nations can’t be sued”, […]

Filed Under: China  Tagged: debt repudiation

No temporary tariff relief for now

March 30, 2020 by Richard Schulman 1 Comment

The weekly trade report with L.C. Last Friday, March 27th, the Wall Street Journal quoted a senior administration official to the effect that “The Trump administration is preparing to suspend collection of import tariffs for three months to give U.S. companies financial relief amid the coronavirus pandemic.” Asked about this at a press conference the […]

Filed Under: Trade  Tagged: EU, Inhofe, Taiwan

China’s coronavirus statistics are phony

March 29, 2020 by Richard Schulman Leave a Comment

by Richard Schulman China’s communist government is trying to recover from the basement level to which its prestige has fallen after causing thousands of deaths worldwide and destroying a world economy in recovery from the 2008 recession. Now it seeks to worm its way back into the world’s good graces by claiming that it has […]

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