The US urgently needs a classical-liberal, third party alternative to the unsatisfactory defense, trade, immigration, and debt policies and candidates of the two major parties. The post New Classical-Liberal Third Party Needed appeared first on Founders Broadsheet ..read more

by Richard Schulman What happened in China China’s present demographic crisis is a casualty of the Population Control movement. Th e movement was launched in the US and at the UN in the early 1970s. Its proponents argued that there were too many people consuming the Earth’s limited resources. Resources would soon run out, and […] The post Radical Environmentalists Created Two World-Historic Disasters appeared first on Founders Broadsheet ..read more

One underlying principle explains almost all policy quarrels between Republicans and Democrats (part one of two) by Richard Schulman The recent banking crisis has provided an unexpected value: it tells us much about the underlying principles that differentiate progressive Democrats from traditional Republicans. The banking crisis was triggered by the unusually rapid raising of interest […] The post Founders’ negative rights vs. progressives’ positive rights (entitlements) appeared first on Founders Broadsheet ..read more

by Richard Schulman After December 7, 1941 (Pearl Harbor Day), Americans resolved that such a devastating surprise attack would never be allowed to happen again. Three generations later, that avowal had become forgotten. The surprise attack of 12/7 was followed by the no less deadly surprise attack of 9/11. Therefore, on this day of remembrance, […] The post Could a devastating surprise attack happen again? appeared first on Founders Broadsheet ..read more

* But US and EU agricultural protectionism remains a scandal — harming consumers in the advanced sector with severe food price inflation and farmers in the developing sector whose price-depressed products are blocked from sale to US and EU consumers; * A US-EU dispute remains over the EU’s discriminatory plans for the US tech giants;* […] The post Surprise: US accepts WTO olive ruling favoring EU appeared first on Founders Broadsheet ..read more

Japan is reportedly resisting being arm-twisted into adopting the same managed trade deal that the US forced on the EU and other countries in lieu of just lifting the dubious Section 232 tariffs on steel and aluminum imposed by former President Trump. Japan, like the rest of the US’s Pacific allies, wants it to join […] The post Allies keep trade alive without Biden administration help appeared first on Founders Broadsheet ..read more

Until now, if an individual EU member is threatened by a non-member (as Lithuania has been by China), the EU can’t retaliate against the threatening party unless it secures the unanimous approval of all 27 EU member countries’ legislatures — a cumbersome and usually impossible procedure. But the European Commission (EC) is proposing the adoption […] The post EU moves toward adopting “Anti-Coercion Instrument” appeared first on Founders Broadsheet ..read more

The services pact should benefit the US, which is the world’s largest exporter of services. Meanwhile, the US, EU, and Japan are discussing ways to counter at the WTO the market-distorting practices of non-market economies — namely, China’s. Separately, the US and EU are also holding discussions on strategic cooperation in the Indo-Pacific region, where […] The post At last, a WTO success: services liberalization appeared first on Founders Broadsheet ..read more

World trade and the Indo-Pacific aside, the Biden administration has problems closer to home. It has taken actions against Canada that hurt both that country and the US, and it is facing damaging actions not of its doing from Mexico’s authoritarian leftist president AMLO. The November 29th, 2021 trade report with L.C. On November 26th, […] The post Biden vs Canada; AMLO vs the US appeared first on Founders Broadsheet ..read more

* Raimondo-Tai talk-talk team does Tokyo. * US thinks WTO’s pro-EU ruling on olives is the pits. * Bipartisan USCC issues to Congress its hardline annual report on China. * The WTO’s annual report emphasizes that the highly connected global economy “has made the world more vulnerable to shocks… but also more resilient to them […] The post Biden admin dysfunctional trade policy finds few amigos abroad or at home appeared first on Founders Broadsheet ..read more