Is there not an eerie resemblance between this photo from contemporary Wuhan, China: and this photo capturing an event in a neighboring province 2,100 years earlier? Two millenia, two hated totalitarian emperors. The Chinese people deserve better. So does the rest of the world, now suffering from a plague visited upon it by the new […]
President and Navarro against tariff relief as stimulus
The weekly trade column with correspondent L.C. Both President Trump and his trade adviser Peter Navarro are against the use of tariff relief as a stimulus to stem the economic decline that the coronavirus epidemic has caused. After the president dismissed the mounting number of demands for removing his unilateral tariffs, late on March 20th […]
Nature dominates climate
by Richard Schulman Recent studies are reinforcing the view that nature still dominates climate, not the CO2 generated by human combustion of fossil fuels. The studies center around two questions: Can the warming that has taken place since the 19th century be explained by natural causes rather than CO2 emissions from fossil fuel combustion? If […]
Canada has ratified the USMCA
The Weekly Trade Report by L.C. Canada ratified the USMCA (United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement) sooner than anticipated. This is one of the few positive developments recently for a world economy badly rattled by spreading COVID-19 (Wuhan coronavirus) infections in Europe and the Federal Reserve’s foolish and unnecessary revival over the weekend of 2008 “anti-recession” measures. The […]
China wet markets repeatedly cause global epidemics
by Richard Schulman China wet markets have repeatedly caused global epidemics, including the latest Wuhan coronavirus pandemic. The viruses jump from one species to another — bats, snakes, pangolins, chickens — and then to humans. Wet markets, where wild animals alive and dead are sold, exist elsewhere in the world, but China’s are unique in […]
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