Immigrant entrepreneur Elon Musk has just settled a Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) suit on terms favorable to himself and the innovative companies he founded. Shortly before, the SEC had said that it was “seeking to bar Mr. Musk, Tesla’s largest shareholder and its top executive, from serving as an officer or director of any […]
School schootings, SpaceX reactions, trade war threat
Three important developments clamor for discussion since our previous issue: the policy recommendations, foolish and sound, in the wake of the Parkland, FL school shootings; the delayed reactions to the successful flight of the SpaceX Falcon rocket; and the trade war threat of the Commerce Department’s recommendation for steel and aluminum tariffs and import quotas. […]
Mon.-Tues. (Feb. 5-6, 2018) Weak dollar, trade protectionism the two big things that threaten the improving US economy
Steve Forbes, editor of Forbes magazine and a Republican candidate for President in 1996, writes that “Two big things threaten the improving US economy: a weak dollar and trade protectionism.” Regarding the latter, he continues, It’s one thing to update trade agreements such as Nafta, quite another to blow them up or try to dictate […]
