Putin’s Willpower: The 25% Tariffs on Canada and Mexico
The only effective purpose of hitting both Canada and Mexico with 25% tariffs at once, besides causing economic havoc, damaging free trade resource-price efficiencies, and levying a hidden tax on Americans, is to enrage Canadians and Mexicans to make more, not fewer, likely to collaborate with the Putin regime and its more powerful totalitarian partner…
Deterring Supply Chain Aggression by China
Set-Up: President Biden meets with President Xi Jinping before the G20 Summit on November 14th. Chinese leadership knows Taiwan is a vital manufacturing, trading, and freedom partner for the United States in the Far East. Hence, if China assaults Taiwan it knowingly attacks a U.S. vital economic national interest in its supply chain. Recent saber rattling…
US-Self-Sabotage: Energy Policy and Nord Stream 2
Bloomberg reports that Nord Stream 2 is again underway at a clip, with Russia pushing forward and Germany trying to proof the project against the Trump-led U.S. sanctions against our German NATO ally, friend, and fellow democracy. In 2014, Representative John Boehner and others argued that fast-tracked, increased U.S. LNG exports abroad would free global supplies…