Jonathan Newman joins Bob to explore the archaeological evidence for silver as money in ancient Mesopotamia, challenging Modern Monetary Theory and affirming Menger’s classic account of money’s market origins.
A few hours before President Donald Trump slapped huge new tariffs on nearly all imports to the United States, Israel preemptively dropped all its tariffs on American goods. That’s what some of Trump’s defenders say is the goal of this whole madcap scheme: to get foreign countries to lower their barriers to American exports. Mission accomplished, right? Apparently not. In Wednesday’s announcement, Trump imposed new 17 percent tariffs on all imports from Israel. Amusingly, that’s a higher tariff […]
The White House says it killed some very important Houthi commanders, but it won’t tell you which ones. Earlier this month, National Security Advisor Mike Waltz insisted to ABC that President Donald Trump’s war in Yemen was different from former President Joe Biden’s campaign because the Trump administration “actually targeted multiple Houthi leaders and took them out.” Who were those leaders? Waltz didn’t say. White House spokeswoman Anna Kelley referred Reason to the Department of Defense, which referred […]
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Loyola University of Chicago used to have a law school professor named George Anastaplo. I learned about him in my late teens through a long piece in The Chicago Tribune Sunday magazine, which was written before most newspaper journalism turned into irredeemable garbage. I think it if fair to say he is someone who the informed readers of these pages should want to know. I wanted to know him better, so I showed up at his office one […]
Tweet Here’s a letter to the Wall Street Journal. Editor: James Freeman (“Will Trump Take Yes for an Answer?”) shares the Journal’s report that Sen. Ted Cruz (R., Texas) said that he hopes President Trump’s tariffs work as leverage to get other countries to quickly lower trade barriers, which could spark an economic boom. It would indeed be good for other countries to lower their trade barriers in exchange for the U.S. lowering its barriers. (By the way, […]
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