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Trade Disputes Are An Unfortunate Effect of Floating Money

“They have treated us very unfairly on trade.” That’s one of President Trump’s most frequent economic themes, and he has a point. So do “they.” To see why, it’s easy to forget that no one buys or sells with money. All trade is products for products, with money serving as the agreement about value […]

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Trump Shouldn’t Fix Social Security, He Should Free People From It

Cato Institute co-founder Ed Crane has always said that freedom is the answer to any question about economic growth. If people are free they’ll have all the prosperity they could ever want.  Crane’s view of the world is something President Trump should embrace. In the next four years all manner of economists and budget

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Minorities Voted For Trump, Trump Owes Them Prosperous Policy

Jack Kemp (1935-2009) always felt Republicans should do well with minorities and immigrants. He saw the Republicans as the party of opportunity, and felt his message of growth should and would resonate with voters who frequently had less, but wanted more. Not long before he died, and as Barack Obama was on the rise

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Our National Security Calls for Trump to Impede the TikTok Ban

Writing about antitrust law recently, the excellent Holman Jenkins observed that “At best it’s a criminal waste of talent. At worst, it’s deeply worrisome that any law school graduate aspires to participate in an intellectually corrupt shakedown machine that exists primarily to keep itself employed.” Would it that more would apply Jenkins’s antitrust analysis to

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Joe Biden and Donald Trump Threaten U.S. Steel’s Existence

Never turn down capital when it’s offered to you. The previous axiom is easily as old as business. The wise refuse what’s precious precisely because they know well that tomorrow is another century. To see why, look back to February of 2020. At the time, unemployment was at all-time lows and stock markets were

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The Drafting of Tom Brady As a Metaphor for the Absurd TikTok Ban

TikTok has asked for an injunction so the Supreme Court or the incoming Trump administration may consider its argument that forcing its ownership sale violates the First Amendment. Given what’s at stake, it only seems appropriate that it’s granted. For users and content creators of this platform, what is key to be aware of is

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The FTC Will Derail Trump’s Presidency, If He Lets It

Sadly, it has become fashionable for politicians in both parties to demonize “big” business. Although capitalism has put supercomputers in our pockets, provided affordable chauffeurs (Uber) once only available to the extraordinarily wealthy, and a workforce increasingly freed from the physically demanding labor of the past in favor of new jobs tailored towards our

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Without a Stable Dollar, Trump’s BRICS Demands Will Be Toothless

“We require a commitment from those countries that they will neither create a new BRICS currency, nor back any other currency to replace the mighty U.S. Dollar or, they will face 100% Tariffs, and should expect to say goodbye to selling into the wonderful U.S. Economy.” As readers can hopefully gather, President-elect Donald Trump

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We Need ‘MAGA’ Companies To Power the Next Stock-Market Boom

Stocks are at record highs. More encouraging, if President Trump keeps the same focus on the Dow during his second term as he did his first, the record-setting closings of today should pale in comparison to what’s expected by the end of his four-year term. But to power another stock market boom, Trump must

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It’s Not Conservative for Conservatives To Spend the Money of Others

A recent story in the Wall Street Journal indicated that Manhattan Institute scholar Christopher Rufo is set to meet with President-Elect Trump’s team to discuss a plan “to geld American universities by withholding money if they don’t pull back on diversity measures.” How dangerous, and how very anti-conservative. Think about it. Underlying Rufo’s aim is to use the federal

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