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In which I demonstrate why Ben Shapiro has been running non-stop from a debate with me, particularly one concerning economics. First, this is a link to his piece entitled “Yes, Tariffs Are Still Stupid. Here’s Why”. Go and read it first, in its totality, so you will understand that I am not making any of […]
It’s not hard to know who doesn’t have a real case when you see free traders going full-retard over two tariffs. Trump needs to be impeached immediately to head off the trade war he has declared. His appointees who support that trade war, namely Commerce Secretary Ross and Trade Representative Lighthizer, should be fired immediately. […]
Steve Keen, arguably the most important economist alive today, turns his formidable guns on David Ricardo, specialization, and free trade. David Ricardo extended Smith’s vision of specialization within a given industry to specialization between industries and nations, and made the argument that two countries can benefit from free trade even if one country is absolutely […]
A college student asks if there is a link between the two: Over the years in which the US has abolished trade barriers and enacted a multitude of international free trade agreements we have experienced a massive increase in trade deficits, national debt, as well as personal debt. I can see the obvious connection between […]
Finally got around to addressing this in tonight’s Darkstream. Hit 13 of Henry Hazlitt’s 23 errors on free trade, which longtime readers already know. I also slapped down a Nazi larper who suggested “national socialism” as an alternative to free trade; one of these days I’m going to have to do an analysis of the […]
I’ll be doing a Darkstream tonight at 7 PM Eastern on the subject of free trade. This is part 1, and it will focus on David Ricardo and the comparative advantage theory that is the primary economic justification for free trade. UPDATE: The replay is here. For those who want to prepare for Part 2, […]
As if the costs of free trade weren’t already high enough, some researchers have determined that free trade, specifically with China, is literally killing more white working-class Americans than guns and traffic combined. Increasing competition with China for trade has been blamed for soaring death rates among white, middle aged Americans. A silent ‘epidemic’ of […]
Brainstormers will remember Steve Keen, the brilliant iconoclast who is breaking new ground in the field of economics. In Forbes, he points out that Trump’s heretical anti-globalism is actually more economically sound than the fallacy of Ricardian free trade: Globalization and Free Trade are good. This belief is shared by almost all politicians in both […]
Tom Woods graciously granted me permission to publish the complete transcript of his recent show with Gene Epstein, with whom he discussed the libertarian case for free trade, and in doing so, criticized my case against free trade. If you prefer to listen to Episode 728 of the Tom Woods show, you can do so […]
Thanks to his There Will Be War series, Jerry Pournelle was one of my biggest intellectual influences as a teenager. If you want to ensure that your teenage sons have an antidote to the progressive and globalist nonsense in which they are engulfed by the mainstream and conservative medias, you simply cannot do better than […]