Tariffs Won’t Fix the Rust Belt or Small Towns
Trump’s tariffs may be a big shift away from globalization or just a bargaining ploy. Regardless, tariffs isn’t an antidote to devastating changes.
Business
Stay the course on tariffs; The Donald is saving us from imports and the federal government.
Billionaire Bill Ackman’s feet got cold over tariffs. He’s calling for a 90-day delay on imposing tariffs on the world because the Dow fell precipitously. He wants to avoid Trump taking the blame for a global economic meltdown.
Screen Angels
Not only did Disney’s latest film Snow White take a pounding from the critics, but it also lost at the box office. According to The Hollywood Reporter during its opening weekend, the movie grossed $86.1 million falling short of its $100 million goal.
Krugman vs. Trump on tariffs
President Trump imposed tariffs on nations that take advantage of our free trade policy. The cheaters include nations that we protect with our military at our expense. Our NATO allies roll us like we are the town drunk.
When Did Success Become a Crime?
At what point did we decide that the hardworking shoulders carrying this country should be kicked instead of thanked?
Vioxx & Roll: How Big Pharma Turned Heart Attacks Into a Business Model
Once upon a time in the magical land of Shareholder Value, a pharmaceutical giant named Merck gazed deep into the void of human suffering and asked the question all noble drugmakers must ask: “How can we make arthritis treatment more profitable than oil?”
The Trouble With Tariffs
Focused, temporary tariffs designed to level the playing field may or may not work as designed. Permanent tariffs kill capital which kills jobs.
Vance Destroys Anti-Tariff Argument
When I was in college, I worked in a factory and it paid for a house, a car and college. I can attest to the skill level.
The Private Sector. They Expect Results. So Should The Public.
As bureaucrats in the US and elsewhere, are being required to work and justify their existence, they are upset. Welcome to the real world.
Trade whores Can Canada survive a 19% drop in its GDP?
As you read or view media reports on Trump’s Trade Wars, bear in mind these facts. Mexico’s GDP is $1.8 trillion a year. Its exports to the United States are $506 billon a year. Exports to the USA make up 28% of its economy. Exports to Mexico make up less than 2% of our $27.7 …
What Snow White could have been; The moral to the story matters more than the DEI hiring
When my mother took me to see Snow White, everyone fell in love with Snow White. I immediately fell for the wicked Queen. —Woody Allen in Annie Hall, 1977 It is not kosher to begin a newsletter quoting Woody Allen because he married his daughter or something like that. OK, it was his crazy girlfriend’s …
Can The Washington Post Be Saved?
We have previously reported on how owner Jeff Bezos’ decision that The Washington Post not make any endorsement for President in 2024 cost the newspaper hundreds of thousand of subscriptions. But now columnist Joe Concha of the New York Post says that Mr Bezos is doing what is necessary to save one of our nation’s …
The Homebound Hustle
With the genesis of COVID-19, an unprecedented and universal revolution in the workplace irrupted in such a compressed period of time, we still feel its consequences.
USA is refuge for manufacturing; Red China, England and Europe are making America the safe place for factories
Tim Cook, the head of Apple, met with Trump at Mar-a-Lago in mid-December and paid $1 million to attend the inauguration.
Did Musk Really Just Kill the CFPB? Please Make Sure It Stays Dead
Elon Musk and his tiny, intrepid Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) team are ripping through DC like a small herd of bulls through a cheap Chinese tchotchke shop. It is magnificent to watch.
The Brutal Truth About Cage-Free Chickens: The Pecking Order Is Real
Ask any real farmer or backyard chicken keeper, and they’ll tell you the truth: chickens are not cuddly, feathered friends—they are ruthless, territorial, and will gladly tear each other apart to establish dominance.
Philadelphia Inquirer Columnist Is All Kinds of Sadz That Target Is Dumping DEI
As I look at thinning the herd on some of my subscriptions, I note that I am paying more for The Philadelphia Inquirer than for The New York Times and The Washington Post, both of which are better newspapers. But, not only am I more connected to the City of Brotherly Love, the Inky does provide some unrivaled entertainment!
Who’s sorry now: Germany or Hamas?
In 2018, President Trump addressed the United Nations in the annual presidential welcome to that body. He said, “Reliance on a single foreign supplier can leave a nation vulnerable to extortion and intimidation. “
President Trump Cancels the Left’s Electric Vehicle Policies
I have always held that if someone wants to buy a plug-in electric vehicle, if he can afford one, he has every right to do so. Alas, Our Betters in the former Biden Administration — and I do so love referring to it as the former Biden Administration! — thought that no, it ought not …
Breaking the Chains: Why Trump Should Channel Teddy Roosevelt to Bust Modern Monopolies
If Donald Trump truly wants to cement his legacy as a defender of American greatness, he need look no further than the example set by Theodore Roosevelt.