Trump’s Tariffs Inflation & Other Facts

  ANALYSIS and OPINION Most students of internationnal business learned long ago that tariffs are an idea generally frowned upon by the father of free market capitalism and free trade, Adam Smith and his chief disciple David Ricardo.  This is because they not only cause people to pay higher prices than if there were no Read More …

America’s Faltering Character: Trump’s Triumphal Arch

  OPINION and ANALYSIS: Trump’s Triumphal Arch. Does it remind you of anything? Have you been to Paris at anytime during the last 200 years?  Napolean.  You remember him don’t you.  From history class.  Yeah, the self-proclaimed emperor of the French who brought decades of European land battles that regularly engaged hundreds of thousands of Read More …