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Economics, Politics / Burton Malkiel, capitalism, Comparative advantage, David Ricardo, democracy, trade /

Big Guns on Trade: Ricardo via Malkiel

May 22, 2025

Wheeling out the big guns at last! It’s taken a while, but we’ve arrived. At long last we have an article in the Financial Times — our bastion of global financial goings-on — that explains David Ricardo to those who need to know. Better late than never. Even better: the article is authored by no […]

Politics / capitalism, democracy, Martin Wolf, plutocracy, Populism, Trump /

A, Belated, Response to Wolf

April 28, 2025

A friend of mine, here in Vermont, has disrupted my enjoyment of a pleasant spring morning by reminding me of what Martin Wolf says about populism. Specifically he referred me to pages 180-181 of the Wolf book “The Crisis of Democratic Capitalism”. I wish he hadn’t. I have been cajoled into a rant: My […]

Commentary / NAFTA, Tariffs, trade, USMCA /

Who Needs Tariffs?

April 23, 2025

Who needs tariffs when you can screw everything up simply by talking about them? Imagine all that cash rolling in. Imagine all those foreigners crumbling under the thumb of the mighty good old USA. Imagine … Well, just imagine. Maybe it’s all for fun. Maybe the joke’s on us. Are we simply being too serious? […]

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