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What’s the appropriate reaction to these Trump tariffs for someone who is a believer in Austrian economics?
Aren’t these tariffs going to be paid by the US companies who are doing the importing, not actually these foreign countries doing the exporters, where those price increases are ultimately going to be passed onto consumers? And from what I understand, the supposedly “reciprocal” tariffs that Trump announced today, average about 25% on all imports to the US, but they aren’t actually reciprocal at all. Instead they’re calculated based upon each countries trade deficit with the US, using […]
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Federal Spending in 2025 Is on Track to be the Highest Ever
For the first five months of the 2025 fiscal year, federal spending is coming in at the highest level ever. This is true even when we adjust for CPI inflation.
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North Carolina Is the Latest State To Try To Restrict Lab-Grown Meat
A handful of states around the nation have moved to ban or restrict the sale of lab-grown meat. Now a new measure in North Carolina aims to place onerous labeling requirements on cultivated meat products. House Bill 134 requires products containing lab-grown meat to “clearly disclose to a reasonable purchaser of meat food products that a food product is a cell-cultured meat product” by labeling it with terms like “cell-cultured,” “fake,” “lab-grown,” or “grown in a lab.” The […]
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Tweet Norbert Michel, writing in the Wall Street Journal, busts the myth that America’s middle class was killed by free trade. Three slices: Populists such as Vice President JD Vance argue that free-trade agreements cause middle-class wages to fall, hollowing out towns across America. Yet the only way to make this argument is to cherry-pick the data to death. The U.S. middle class has thrived over the past 40 years. In fact, Americans of all economic backgrounds have […]
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Get Ready for a BIG Money Print, Says Larry Lepard
With James J. Puplava, CFP®, CTS™, CES™, CIS™, CFS™, CAS™, CSS™, FPWM™ Mar 21, 2025 – Are you ready for the next big expansion of the US money supply? Jim Puplava interviews Larry Lepard about his fantastic new book, The Big Print, where he talks about the math behind climbing US debt and US interest expense, which…
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Judge Ho Dismisses – With Prejudice – the Criminal Case Against NYC Mayor Eric Adams
The district court in SDNY has dismissed the criminal case against NYC Mayor Eric Adams. The dismissal is with prejudice, i.e., the charges cannot be re-filed at a later date; the court rejected the DOJ’s attempt to have the case dismissed without prejudice, which would have left the DOJ free to re-instate the charges at any time and for any reason. [The lengthy and quite comprehensive opinion by Judge Ho is available here]. “Everything here smacks of a […]
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Ninth Circuit Declines to Block Idaho’s “Biological Sex” Restrictions for Multi-Occupancy School Restrooms, Locker Rooms, and Shower Rooms
An excerpt from the long Roe v. Critchfield, decided last week by Ninth Circuit Judge Morgan Christen, joined by Judges Kim McLane Wardlaw and Mark J. Bennett: Before the summer of 2023, public school districts in Idaho were free to adopt their own policies regarding students’ access to [multi-occupancy] restrooms, locker rooms, and shower rooms. Approximately one quarter of Idaho’s public schools had policies specifically permitting students to use the facilities corresponding to their gender identity. The Idaho […]
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What Is War Good For?
It’s a common belief today that all war is evil. This is especially true in the wake of the confusing quagmires that have come to characterize warfare in the 21st century: Afghanistan, Iraq, and now Ukraine. Continue Reading…
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Burst gas pipe sparks fire in Malaysia
A fire at a gas pipeline operated by Malaysia state energy firm Petronas injured 33 people on Tuesday on the outskirts of the capital Kuala Lumpur, authorities said. A fire at a gas pipeline operated by Malaysia state energy firm Petronas injured 33 people on Tuesday on the outskirts of the capital Kuala Lumpur, authorities said. Read More
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