President Donald Trump is rightly, reasonably trying to get the planets’ nations to stop robbing US blind. It’s been global sport for decades. We are the planet’s Super Suckers. We get robbed in a wide variety of ways. The net result of any and all of them? Hundreds of billions of dollars per year that […]
Many countries – most especially Communist China – subsidize their domestic products that are then sold on the global market. This isn’t free trade. Some countries – most especially Communist China – intentionally subsidize to such an extent they sell their domestic products on the global market at a loss. This isn’t free trade. And […]
It is becoming more than a mite tiresome – dealing with the knee-jerk, talking-point-screeching alleged “free traders.” Who oppose President Donald Trump attempting to alter the ongoing, rolling nightmare mess that is this country’s global trade policy. The US has spent the last half-century-plus – cutting trade deals that cut our own throat. Nigh every […]
There seems to be a wide swath of the population – thankfully centered mostly in Washington, D.C. – that acts as if history started the day Donald J. Trump was sworn in as our 45th President. Chief among them – are the proponents of alleged “free trade.” In this, they are very much like the […]
In February 2017, iMonster Apple (Market Cap: $970 billion) stopped paying Qualcomm for the patented technologies Qualcomm invented – and Apple used in their wireless devices. Please note: Apple had signed multiple contracts – in which they agreed to pay Qualcomm for permission to use the patented technologies Qualcomm invented. Please also note: Apple continued […]
The United States has spent the last half century-plus engaging in a titanic amount of very stupid policies. Plan-by-plan, decision-by-decision – we have been outsourcing our prosperity to the rest of the planet. Trade policy, tax policy, regulatory policy,… – we have spent decades going out of our way to be as dumb as possible […]
Born and raised in the Washington, D.C. area, I was almost certainly subjected to more frequent and intense political discussions – than the fortunate people in the likes of Peoria, Illinois or Panama City, Florida. (Ahh…Florida.) One of the recurring DC themes – was people here seriously fretting the fact that most of the rest […]
Uber-everything company Amazon (Market Cap: $865 billion) – is a monster. Heralded as a free market success – Amazon has actually engaged in a whole lot of very anti-free market practices to get to be as huge as they are. Amazon’s Anticompetitive History Amazon Has Some Serious Antitrust Issues Amazon’s No-Profit Model: Bleed Competitors to […]
Isn’t judicial activism great? I kid. I’m a kidder. But our title is not an exaggeration. Qualcomm’s Fate In Judge Koh’s Hands As FTC Trial Wraps Who is Judge Lucy Koh?: “(A) United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of California…. “On January 20, 2010, President Barack Obama […]
We the People should have known better than to hand the Democrats control of the House of Representatives. To paraphrase P.J. O’Rourke: “Giving money and power to Democrats is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.” Except “teenage” is too advanced – the Democrats appear to be stuck in eternal adolescence. We have […]