tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3758330678390419129.post9128266981607409226..comments2024-02-13T02:39:22.756-05:00Comments on EconomicPolicyJournal.com: WARNING: A Massive Trade War is About to BeginRobert Wenzelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14296920597416905488noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3758330678390419129.post-88818344910785077042017-04-01T03:00:43.101-04:002017-04-01T03:00:43.101-04:00"Describing himself as a "voracious read..."Describing himself as a "voracious reader," Reagan cited nineteenth British free trade advocates John Bright and Richard Cobden and twentieth century Austrian free market economists Ludwig von Mises and Friedrich von Hayek. He also said 'Bastiet has dominated my thinking so much...'<br />"Reagan was better read and better educated than we were..."<br /><br />-Charleshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05417810805625984670noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3758330678390419129.post-5301561581755879732017-03-31T21:38:19.099-04:002017-03-31T21:38:19.099-04:00I would refer you to my "Trump parrots the la...I would refer you to my "Trump parrots the last person he spoke with" theorem. BTW, the reason he's so loud, is his empty head serves as a resonant cavity.Capn Mikehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08133441332228302495noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3758330678390419129.post-86174149134184068212017-03-31T17:22:32.905-04:002017-03-31T17:22:32.905-04:00What a maroon. Just to take one example, he marve...What a maroon. Just to take one example, he marvels that the U.S.'s trade deficit is, at this moment, the same as the rest of the world's trade surplus. I don't know all that much about economics, but I had the vague idea that the sum of the world's trade surpluses and deficits will always equal zero, by definition. Is that wrong? Then of course he trots out the usual argumentJdLhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00630104950043758864noreply@blogger.com