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President’s Space Force strongly endorsed by Angelo Codevilla

July 5, 2018 by Richard Schulman 1 Comment

President Trump directs the Department of Defense and Pentagon to establish a Space Force as the sixth military branch

Missile-defense expert Angelo Codevilla has endorsed President Trump’s call for the formation of a new, sixth military branch, the Space Force. The President, fed up with slow-walking by his military chiefs and their bureaucratic underlings at the Pentagon, announced his proposal on national tv and backed it up subsequently in a Fourth of July message […]

Filed Under: Space Force  Tagged: Andrew Bacevich, Angelo Codevilla, Brookings Institution, David Ignatius, Jed Babbin

President unconcerned about WTO fate, 20-25% foreign car tariffs

July 2, 2018 by Richard Schulman Leave a Comment

Shown: General Motors Renaissance Center in Detroit. GM sells cars throughout world, opposes US tariffs on car imports that will bring retaliation, force it to lay off US workers

Trade correspondent L.C. writes: A report that President Trump is planning to exit the WTO stirred much excitement over the weekend. The least of the problems of the alleged planning document, the Fair And Reciprocal Trade act, would have been its acronym. Though it was denied that President Trump actually plans to leave the WTO […]

Filed Under: Trade  Tagged: auto tariffs

Trump escalates trade threats against China but priorities unclear

June 25, 2018 by Richard Schulman Leave a Comment

Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross received a severe grilling by Senate Finance Committee on June 20th

Trade correspondent L.C. writes: The Trump administration is continuing to escalate its trade pressures on China, but it’s not clear whether the priority is limiting technology transfer to China or improving the US trade balance with that country, nor why it is risking progress on either goal by simultaneously launching trade battles against allies and […]

Filed Under: Trade  Tagged: China, Senate Finance Committee, Wilbur Ross

Mexico should take in the migrants or stop their passage to the US

June 21, 2018 by Richard Schulman Leave a Comment

Migrants climbing over the wall south of San Diego

A previous Founders Broadsheet set down what we believe to be the principles of a sound immigration policy. We believe those principles still hold but wish to update them with some topical comments in the wake of the firestorm over the Trump administration’s alleged mistreatment of migrant children. The firestorm has provided non-stop haters of […]

Filed Under: Immigration  Tagged: guest worker program, Luis Videgaray, Mexico

Trade war threat beginning to damage global markets and investments

June 18, 2018 by Richard Schulman Leave a Comment

US Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer

L.C.’s weekly trade report follows: Tariff trigger pulled; some damage to global markets and investments appears Following the failure of bilateral talks the Trump administration has followed through, as expected, by imposing 25% tariffs on about $50 billion worth of Chinese exports. That represents about 10% of the annual value of US goods imports from […]

Filed Under: Trade  Tagged: Canada, dairy, lumber, trade war

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