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How The Trade War Ends

The quote “When goods don’t cross borders, soldiers will,” is frequently attributed to 19th century writer and free market economist Frederic Bastiat. While these specific words, strung together with this specific syntax, cannot be found in Bastiat published catalogue, their sentiments are of the type he would have likely endorsed. Continue reading

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Janet Goes to Guangzhou

The S&P 500 closed out Q1 2024, up over 10 percent. But while the S&P 500 was rising day after day one former highflyer was crashing and burning. The Boeing Company closed out the quarter down over 25 percent. Still, it wasn’t the worst performing stock in the S&P 500. That honor goes to Tesla Inc., which declined over 29 percent. Continue reading

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Have We Entered the New Dark Ages?

There’s never a good time to spew printing press money into the economy.  But the years 2020-21 were particularly bad.  That’s because governments the world over locked down their economies for no good reason at all. Continue reading

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Why Consumer Price Inflation Is Here To Stay

The ability of U.S. central planners to export price inflation to China is finally breaking down. This ability masked the effect of loose fiscal and monetary policies in the U.S. for several decades, as the consequences of enormous deficits and radical money supply expansion were offset by low cost consumer goods. Those days are over. Continue reading

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