For a politician that ran against the socialists in the Democratic party, and is currently railing against the socialist mayoral candidate of New York City, Mr. Trump’s actions in governing are, shall we say, inconsistent. Freedom loving conservatives* understand that the government’s control in any facet of our lives, leaves less liberty for us in […]
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Mr. Trump’s capital call
04 Sep 2025
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Trump: Trumped and Thumped
30 Aug 2025
When Joe Biden tried his patently illegal scheme to transfer billions of dollars of debt from student loan takers to a favored constituency, the only question was would someone have legal standing to get the case before the courts. There was little doubt that once there, it would be squashed, and it was in Biden […]
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Trump and the Fed
28 Aug 2025
I received a short note from a long-time supporter of this Berean criticizing Jay Powell’s latest interest rate decision, and my reply is worth mentioning to all of you. Jay Powell is absolutely not the problem with interest rates, nor was Ben Bernanke or anyone else that has been a Fed Chair. The problem is […]
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Bailing out Intel is a bad idea
21 Aug 2025
But industrial policy advocates will nevertheless proudly promote it. Their primary argument is based on national security. “We have to have a chip industry, so a major employer like Intel must be saved.” This is really bad economics, and it comes out of a lack of understanding of what the alternative would be. First of […]
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One of the sad spectacles of our modern hyper-partisan age is the complete abandonment of principles depending on where you are in the political power game. You actually can listen to Democrats now on some foreign and economic policy issues and some of what they are saying make sense. But they are only making sense […]
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It all comes down to really one question. Is it acceptable to the United States for the Iranian regime to have nuclear weapons? If the answer is no, then Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu have performed a tremendous service to the world. The wicked Iranian regime has directly and indirectly killed perhaps 1000 Americans since […]
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It’s fairly normal for the Vice President to be in the role of attack dog on those opposing the administration’s agenda, so it wasn’t surprising to see Mr. Vance’s criticism of the Fed’s current policy position. Mr. Trump has been pushing for easier interest rates in both of his terms in office, and it is […]
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Ukraine Stuns the Russians! Can we finally get the U.S. fully committed to helping them achieve victory?
02 Jun 2025
Regular Berean readers know that I have a very simple and historically conventional view of foreign policy: there are countries that are implacably against the U.S. and its interests (e.g. Russia), those that allied with ours (e.g., the U.K) and those that are not hostile but may or may not support our interests (e.g., India). […]
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Yesterday the U.S. Court of International Trade issued a unanimous three judge* ruling against Mr. Trump’s ambitious claims to virtually unlimited power to enact his “Liberation Day” tariffs on the world, as well as his tariffs against Canada, Mexico and China over fentanyl. Mr. Trump will no doubt appeal, but markets already celebrated in the […]
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Much of the declinist view of the U.S. (championed by the populist left and right) centers around the cost to individuals and communities that lose out as a result of economic change. I am broadly sympathetic to those costs and yet we cannot avoid the necessary other side of the coin that this is a […]
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