“When goods don’t cross borders, soldiers will.” There’s no documented evidence that the great 19th century free thinker Frederic Bastiat penned or spoke the previous line, but it doesn’t really matter whether he did or didn’t. It really doesn’t even matter if Bastiat would have agreed with it or not, even though he likely […]
A Prosperous TikTok Is the Ultimate National Security for the U.S. Read More »
The masses may be revolting, but collectively they’re smart. That they’ve chosen unserious candidates signals a future quite unlike the one predicted by the pundits. Who are you going to believe?
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Janet Yellen asserted that “if we do not respond strategically and in a united way” to “China’s industrial policy,” the “viability of businesses in both our countries and around the world could be at risk.” She couldn’t have it more backwards.
Janet Yellen Is the Big Threat to the U.S. Economy, Not China Read More »
It is of tremendous importance to push back against calls for more protectionism with China. Trade helps our economy, and it keeps us safe.
Trade Protectionism Helps Nobody—Not Even the Pandas Read More »
Wallace-Wells’s lament that the U.S. is well behind China is a feature, not a bug. Since we really don’t know, why not let China find out for us?
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Deese naturally makes the laughable claim that Chinese production is not about demand, and that its people are yet again producing too much.
No, Brian Deese, There’s Never a Problem of Too Much Production Read More »
What’s not acceptable is that we must all lose our freedom because parents won’t, or aren’t doing their jobs. Of course, to even suggest do-nothing parents are the problem vis-à-vis TikTok presumes that there’s a TikTok problem or “crisis” to begin with.
We Lose Freedom Because Parents Won’t Do Their Jobs Read More »
Americans should be free to patronize any social media site they want for political information and thought, the empirical truth is that Americans in general, and young Americans in particular, don’t care much about politics.
Contra TikTok Paranoiacs, Young Americans Aren’t Political Read More »
A disturbingly paranoid U.S. political class demands that Beijing-based TikTok owner ByteDance sell TikTok to a U.S. buyer or face a ban.
TikTok’s Theft By Paranoid Politicians Is Very Third World Read More »
Arguably the worst arguments made in favor of a forced sale of TikTok have to do with national security. Missed by pundits and politicians is that trade is the best protection of all for countries interested in national security precisely because it makes invasion of their country so expensive.
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