A review of some of the permitted counter-moves under WTO rules if Trump imposes tariffs.
Thursday, August 7, 2025
Seeking Reader Sightings on the State of Flyover
Can readers tell us what they see over time from parts of the US off paths well trodden by MSM reporters?
Why Trump Is So Clumsy About Fighting ‘Free Trade’
Why what looks like a trade problem is really a financialization problem, and therefore there are much better solutions than using tariffs.
European Court of Justice Nixes “Investor-State Dispute Settlement” Intra EU, Raising Doubts About Its Future
Is it the beginning of the end for “Investor-State Dispute Settlement” clauses that have undermined democracies, and specifically, labor and environmental protection?
2:00PM Water Cooler 3/7/2018
Today’s Water Cooler: Steel tariffs, Biden and Patrick, Texas primaries, Our Revolution, payrolls, productivity, West Viriginia teacher’s strike, loners
How Cuba Became a Biopharma Juggernaut
Cuba’s entirely state-owned biopharmaceutical industry has been remarkably successful, and can serve as a model for other nations.
Crash Out Brexit Now the Defender Position
Brace yourselves! Why a “crash out” Brexit is now the most likely outcome.
Is “US Energy Dominance” Overhyped? Top Experts Doubts Claims About Future Net Energy Exports
Why US energy production forecasts, specifically from shale plays, may be exaggerated in a serious way.
How the Democrat’s Corrupt Congressional Pay-to-Play Machine Sabotages Progressives and the Popular Will
The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee as a study in corruption and a vehicle for maintaining elite control.
2:00PM Water Cooler 3/6/2018
Today’s Water Cooler: Steel, midterms in TX and PA-02, factor orders, capital spending, Nordstrom, “sewbots,” recessions, MMT, colonization, intersectionality, graphene, the quiet car
Wall Street Journal Hyping Amazon Banking: “Ridiculous, Ridiculous, Ridiculous”
The Wall Street Journal gets itself duped into publishing some particularly flaky, um, nebulous, um, aspirational Amazon banking ideas.
Brexit-Induced Pillaging of the UK Starts: US Fleecing UK on Must-Have Air Transport Pact
Yet another Brexit shoe is about to drop….this one on the aviation front.
