Shorter Mitt Romney
“Part of my economic plan to revive America will be a trade war with China which will only serve to hurt American consumers, and harm the world economy in general.” And people wonder why there are...
View ArticleTumbling Around the Intertubes: February 21, 2012
1. Paging Marcel Proust. 2. Google glasses. 3. What Stephen Sondheim learned from Leonard Bernstein. 4. Forty years ago, Richard Nixon commenced his famous trip to China. 5. In the event of a zombie...
View ArticleSandy Levin’s Gripes With Chinese Trade Practices
Translated from the original Congressionalese by Don Boudreaux, who addresses Levin in an open letter: Let’s reword this complaint to reveal a reality that your prose masks: “China gives AMERICAN...
View ArticleWhy Authoritarian Capitalism Doesn’t Have Much of a Future
As Dan Drezner explains, it is because the institutions of one authoritarian capitalist state might not receive the warm welcome that they would hope to have in another authoritarian capitalist state....
View ArticleWish for the Day
I like France and the French, and so I would never hope for any ill to fall upon the country. Instead, I would like to create an alternative universe with an alternative France and millions of...
View ArticleBarack Obama’s Foreign Policy Uncertainty Doctrine
Remind me again why this administration is supposed to receive praise for its foreign policy: Obama announced a troop surge in Afghanistan and then immediately a pull out date. Should our allies stick...
View ArticleElizabeth Warren Is Just Wild about China
Massachusetts Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren is going to be a prime-time speaker at the upcoming Democratic national convention. In her race, she aired an ad that expressed regret that the United...
View ArticleA Chinese Century? I Think Not.
Walter Russell Mead points out that the supposedly unstoppable Chinese juggernaut has run into a rough patch. Although in the past, the Chinese were able to fuel their economy through deficit spending,...
View ArticleCrony Capitalism Watch
I’m sure that the following is a revolutionary thought to some, but I think that the media should pay more attention to this story, and spend less time writing thumbsuckers speculating whether Harry...
View ArticleAdvantage: Romney
Despite the fact that Barack Obama had a better second debate, Mitt Romney still has the momentum. Consider: Romney is competitive in Pennsylvania. Granted, the poll was taken before the second debate,...
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