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Richard Jewell, loser pays (and government should too)

December 29, 2019 by Richard Schulman 1 Comment

by Richard Schulman Clinton Eastwood’s excellent film, Richard Jewell, is being panned by the mainstream press because the media do not come off well in the film. The FBI doesn’t either. This makes the movie quite timely, given the fiasco of the FBI’s Russian collusion investigation against the Trump campaign and the media’s cheer-leading despite […]

Filed Under: Law, Loser pays (English system)  Tagged: "Loser pays" (English system), "Richard Jewell" (director Clint Eastwood)

USMCA and China trade pact approval likely

December 23, 2019 by Richard Schulman 1 Comment

The Weekly Trade Report by L.C. The US-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) implementing bill passed the House on December 19th and is expected to pass the Senate and be signed into law. Similarly, the US and China announced that a phase one trade deal between the two countries had been agreed upon, although texts approved by both […]

Filed Under: Trade  

Progressives’ malign influence on education

December 22, 2019 by Richard Schulman 1 Comment

by Richard Schulman The 100-page New York Times Magazine special, “The 1619 Project,” is the latest example of Progressives’ malign influence on education. Progressives are Leftists who dislike the Constitution, bipartisanship, and a delimited national state — regarding these as obstacles to utopian schemes such as the Green New Deal and to defining citizens by […]

Filed Under: education  Tagged: 1619 Project, NAEP, NY Times, PISA, Progressives

Three trade events last week: are we better off?

December 16, 2019 by Richard Schulman Leave a Comment

The weekly trade report, by L.C. President Trump and his supporters hailed last week’s three trade events as vindication of the president’s protectionism. These consisted of: US knee-capping of the World Trade Organization’s Appellate Body (its dispute-settlement court), the US-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA), and a first-phase China agreement. The actual benefits of the three trade agreements […]

Filed Under: Trade  

Cato monetary conference calls for Fed reforms and alternatives

December 15, 2019 by Richard Schulman Leave a Comment

by Richard Schulman The annual Cato Monetary Conference is arguably the most important regular event for discussing new ideas about central bank policy and monetary reform. Despite this status, this year’s conference received no media coverage. The editors of mainstream media, who determine what does and doesn’t get covered in the daily press, apparently give […]

Filed Under: Monetary policy  Tagged: Charles Calomiris, currency boards, George Selgin, Steve Hanke

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