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My letter to the NY Times re: How to Eliminate Scandals Over Subsidies
Re: Scandal Around Billionaire Prime Minister Leaves Czechs in Limbo Dear Sirs: I have a sure fire way not only to minimize but completely eliminate scandals over government subsidies. Eliminate the subsidies! You are welcome, Patrick Barron
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A friend asks why there were no more Paul Volckers at the Fed
Dear XXXXX, You ask, where is a Volcker-like Fed chairman today? The answer is that no president would appoint one and no government really wants one! Governments want easy money and will appoint only a Fed chairman who will succumb … Continue reading
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My letter to the NY Times: No Nation Can Harm Another Through Trade
Navarro tells Wall Street to stay out of trade talks There is nothing that another nation can do to harm another through trade. If a nation foolishly chooses to manipulate its currency to spur exports, it gifts goods to … Continue reading
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EU to the UK: We will not allow you to sell our citizens superior goods at bargain prices
From today’s Open Europe news summary: Ireland demands level playing field in any Brexit deal Speaking at a meeting of the European People’s Party (EPP) in Helsinki yesterday, the Irish Taoiseach, Leo Varadkar, said that Ireland wants the future … Continue reading
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My letter to the NY Times re: Typical Keynesian Whitewash
Dear Sirs: Fareed Zakaria’s review of the Adam Tooze book Crashed: How a Decade of Financial Crises Changed the World is a typical Keynesian whitewash of a deeply flawed monetary and regulatory system. Like Tooze, Zakaria sees the Federal Reserve Bank as … Continue reading
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Understanding Economic Theory Is Essential for Understanding the Benefits of Free Trade
In a recent post I explained that China’s manipulations of its own currency hurt only herself and not her trading partners and, therefore, retaliatory tariffs were not warranted and would be self-defeating anyway. China harms herself by causing her own … Continue reading
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China’s Currency Manipulation Does NOT Harm Its Trading Partners
Americans are being told that China’s currency manipulations are causing harm to its trading partners, America being the main victim. Nothing could be further from the truth. China’s currency manipulations certainly cause harm, but to China itself! No country can … Continue reading
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The market provides its own punishment for irrelevant discrimination
My letter to the Mercatus Center: Re: Should hot workers subsidize ugly ones? Excellent points by Omar Ahmad Al-Ubaydli, but aren’t all forms of irrelevant discrimination self-correcting and self-penalizing? If a company hires only beautiful workers and ignores ugly ones who may … Continue reading
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Unilateral Free Trade Would Benefit All UK Citizens
From today’s Open Europe news summary: Removing tariffs post-Brexit could see prices fall up to 1.2%, suggests new study According to a report by the Institute of Fiscal Studies, UK households could see prices fall by around 0.7-1.2% if the … Continue reading
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The EU elite are ignorant of the true meaning and importance of “comparative advantage”
From Open Europe news summary of 14 March 2018 (my highlight): Commenting on Prime Minister Theresa May’s Mansion House speech earlier this month, the EU’s chief Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier called it a “surprising idea” that the UK would be … Continue reading
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