Trumpian Tariffs Rerun the Failed Strategy of Import Substitution Industrialization
Trump’s use of broad-based tariffs to promote industrialization have repeatedly failed. There’s no reason to expect different results now.
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Should We Try to Prevent Autism?
Advocates for those with austism debate the value of prevention versus better care and support.
Read more...The President’s “Firing” of Lisa Cook Is Illegal
Georgetown law professor Adam Levitin eviscerates the purported Trump case for removal of Federal Reserve governor Lisa Cook.
Read more...The New Currency War: US Stablecoin-China Digital Yuan Rivalry as a Test of Monetary Discipline
How the US stablecoin/digital yuan arms race creates instability risks and undermines monetary sovereignity around the world.
Read more...Coffee Break: Armed Madhouse – Misguided Marines
The Marine Corps’ new Pacific island strategy, articulated in its Force Design 2030 planning documents, envisions small units deployed across the Pacific island chain, armed with missiles and sensors to strike Chinese shipping and contest maritime access. Branded as Expeditionary Advanced Base Operations (EABO), the concept seeks to adapt the Corps to great-power competition by […]
Read more...Jim Chanos on Crypto, AI, Dodgy Statistics, and Casino Capitalism
Chanos looks at a broad range of investment hot topics, from cypto to AI, and sees vastly more speculation than value creation
Read more...Even Libertarians and Austrian-School Economists Are Pillorying Javier Milei’s Economic Program
It makes a nice change to read scathing critiques of Milei’s disastrous economic program from the right as well as the left.
Read more...Don’t Look Away: The Revolution Will Not Be Televised But the Genocide Is Being Filmed
A look at some key entries in large and tragically growing body of documentaries on Israel’s ethnic cleansing and genocide in Palestine
Read more...FTC Has Long Said Products Must Back Up Health Claims. A MAHA Lawsuit Would Upend That.
An important legal battle looms about dietary supplement companies being able to make health claims when they lack clinical trial evidence
Read more...Dissecting My Recent Argument (Are Error Theories Offensive?)
How do people consume arguments or make sense of them in a discursive environment devoid of generally-accepted notions of what makes an argument good or successful?
Read more...Health Insurance Price Increases Should Cause Americans More Alarm
An article that usefully documents the magnitude of health insurance price increases nevertheless blames the victims.
Read more...Links 8/24/2025
The Sunday Morning Movie Presents: The Island (2006) Run Time: 1H 54M
The Island is a movie about a sinful monk and his path to redemption.
Read more...Powell Tap Dances on Interest Rate Outlook as Stagflation Starts to Kick In
Powell threw Mr. Market and Trump a bone by hinting the Fed might cut rates in Sept. But the Fed lacks good options with stagflation looming
Read more...Looking Back at the Positions on South African Apartheid Taken by Ambitious Democrats
Over time, Democrats came to support the end to South Africa’s apartheid, whch makes the cowardice over Gaza genocide even more deplorable
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