World Trade Organization: Down the Toilet?

The World Trade Organization was established to promote international trade and crucially, to provide a forum where trade disputes between nations could be peacefully resolved. Its organization and the rules that it implements were painstakingly negotiated over many years by hundreds of countries. Read More …

FISCAL POLICY AND THE U.S. ECONOMY

( Editor’s note: This blog post and/or video, first appeared on one of the “pages” appearing in the menu bar at the top of this website many months ago.  We reprint/repost it here while we work on supplementing and updating our video on the Federal Reserve Bank, interest rates and monetary policy and because some Read More …

FREE TRADE v TARIFFS: Ricardo’s Comparative Advantage

Video about David Ricardo’s theory of Comparative Advantage. Discussion lead by David Dixon Lentz Read More …

Reparations: Are Democrats Handing Victory to Trump in 2020?

Reparations: Are Democrats Handing Victory to Trump in 2020?   (OPINION)   Is it wise for a political candidate to support reparation payments to Black Americans to atone for the sins of slavery?   Currently there are a few candidates seeking the Democratic Party’s Presidential nomination who support paying Black Americans reparations as compensation, presumably Read More …