At The Wall Street Journal, Jacob M. Schlesinger and Rebecca Ballhaus outline President Trump’s global tariffs on steel and aluminum. They write: President Donald Trump kicked his “America First” trade policy into high gear Thursday, launching global tariffs on steel and aluminum, while signaling even more aggressive pressure on trading partners to come, especially against China. In announcing the […]
Archives for March 2018
Why I Want You to Prepare for the Worst
One of the best parts about a New England Winter is that Spring is right around the corner. To help soothe my cabin fever, I visited my favorite fishing site and magazine, On The Water, to see what’s biting. “Captain Frank, of The Frances Fleet in Narragansett, is looking forward to the calm “after” the storm, as […]
The F-35 is About to Get Even More Expensive
The price tag of the world’s most expensive weapons program is about to increase even more with the role out of Block IV modernization. The F-35 Block IV upgrade would be carried out in four increments. Increments 4.1 and 4.3 will be mostly software related, and 4.2 and 4.4 would be hardware. The upgrades are […]
Lipitor—Junk Science Math
Originally posted July 7, 2015. Shane Ellison, M.Sc., “The Peoples Chemist,” explains in an email (copied below) the difference between relative and absolute risk. As Shane writes, “Statistical contortionism is the art of converting healthy people into patients by using numbers to exaggerate drug benefits. Lipitor is a prime example.” The message is simple. Never pay […]
How I Built My Survival Cache. It’s Never Too Late to Start Building Yours
Originally posted May 17, 2016. No one likes to lose money. That’s why when I started building my survival cache over ten-years ago I started with gold. Back then, I spent little time (same as I do today) worrying about where I felt the short-term price of gold was headed. What I wanted to do […]
Your Odds with Statins: 500 to 1?
Originally posted October 5, 2011. If you are considering a drug such as a statin, do you and your family know about the “number needed to treat” (NNT)? I’ve been looking into NNT and found a Businessweek article from January 17, 2008 that explains the concept well. Basically, NNT is the number of patients who […]
TAC Editor Merry on U.S. Trade History Basics
The editor of The American Conservative, Robert W. Merry takes readers on a tour of the history of American trade policies, highlighting what worked, what didn’t and what was controversial. He warns that despite long periods of calm in trade relations, flare ups are inevitable. Merry writes (abridged): America’s first great protectionist political figure was […]
Gunsplaining: Public Ignorance or Public Policy?
One argument from anti-2nd Amendment advocates is that the “jargon” they use to explain gun’s various demerits is often diminished or outright dismissed when imprecise firearm terminology is used. But as senior editor David Harsanyi of The Federalist points out, much of gun-control policy is driven by the mechanics of a firearm and “failing to understand […]
Texas a Model for America’s Energy Markets
Elizabeth Lippincott, executive director of the Texas Clean Energy Coalition, explains to readers at The American Conservative how Texas’ deregulated electricity market can be a model for the nation. She writes (abridged): As price competition from natural gas and renewables continues to depress U.S. demand for coal, policy discussions in Washington, D.C. and in Appalachian […]
State Houses the New Battleground in the War for the 2nd Amendment
Yesterday the Florida legislature passed a gun control bill including measures to raise the age required to buy a firearm from 18 to 21, requiring a three day waiting period to buy a firearm, banning the sale of bump stocks, and creating a new way for courts to confiscate firearms from people found to be […]
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