Do any FReepers still read NR ?
I quit it years ago.
The National Review is one of our worst enemies. In the name of “conservatism” they will do anything to bring in cheap, illegal alien workers to replace our American workers. The Cheap Labor Mafia.
At least you know where the Establishment Communists stand. These guys are even bigger liars.
Yes, please explain economics to a billionaire businessman and his billionaire economic advisors. They really need your help /sarc
Lost me right there.
Idiots like this are why GE Appliances are now Chinese owned.
Try buying a Chinese company, they will not let you own it 100%.
Maybe Kevin should ring up the Tower and make an appointment.
I'm sure multi-billionaire President Trump would be amused by an economics lecture from someone who's probably never met a payroll.
Trump wants to impose 35 percent tariffs on . . . somebody. He does not seem quite sure”
On American companies that move offshore. Not so hard, huh?
Total BS!
I care about the long term strength of the US Constitution. I do not care about trade deficits and their impacts on semi-skilled middle class Americans.
Why do I have the feeling someone is pissing on my leg while telling me it is raining?
Someone should explain this to the president-elect
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Someone should explain to National Review that exporting jobs and importing the workers for the jobs that can’t be exported does not work as a long term proposition.
If you care about America and Americans, which they obviously don’t.
So, fiat currency is actually the same as gold that is mined from the earth to create instant excess capital?
More jive from the guys who promoted Mittens?
And the anti-American, racist clown show known as Cato Institute?
Williamson is an ass: most of this investment is in T-Bills, Wall Street and real-estate, which means the trade deficit helps subsidize profligate spending by the Federal government and asset bubbles.
I think we should outsource roving correspondents like Kevin.
The US economy has benefited immensely by the respect for property rights and the safety of investments from illegal seizure guaranteed by law and the US Constitution. Foreigners be they corporations or individuals with surplus wealth wish to have their real assets in dollars, dollar denominated investments or real estate. As a result of political and economic instability in the EU,the Mideast and Asia Huge amounts of foreign capital have greatly supported the US economy. Prime American real estate has skyrocketed as foreigners invest heavily. American equity and bond markets have grown with huge amounts of transferred foreign capital. Sadly little of this capital has been put into new job creating endeavors. Without this foreign transfer, Obama’s economy would have collapsed.
Lost me when I saw: Kevin Williamson. A fervent anti-Trump chump.
But but, THEY TOOK OUR JERBS!!!
National Review has been anti-Trump and anti-Worker for forever. And Kevin McCarthy is that typical “conservative legislator” who is a frickin’ wuss when bending over for democrats, but with his buddy Paul Ryan, has suddenly found an opposition voice....to their own candidate Donald Trump.
They gave Obama everything. They never fought him on anything. But, now they’re prepared to engage in battle with Trump over Trump’s determination to put America, American jobs, and American workers first.
And National Review, also establishment attack rat against Trump, is the little weasel thing that cackled from the lap of Jabba the Hut. If they would only strangle on their own self serving words.
Let’s say it again. There is no such thing as a free market. It is an ideal type. It is a fantasy. It is a term that imagines a fairy dust that results in everyone getting along, playing by ‘the rules’, being honest, and ignoring opportunities to put their finger on the scale of “free and balanced”. IOW, it doesn’t exist.
Tariffs are designed to rebalance those scales.
Let’s repeat what Steve Moore said the other day on FBN: the US taxes its own exports and does not tax imports.
Foreign countries manipulate currencies, construct impediments, obfuscate, lie, steal, cheat and kill.
And we call that a “free market”.