President Trump's America First trade policy aims to close trade deficits and re-industrialize the United States. Is it an effort whose time has come or a colossal mistake?
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GreenSmart vs. GreenDumb
If you assume that replacing books, magazines and newspapers with Kindle and the Internet are eco-friendly tradeoffs, think again. Carbon footprints don't tell all.
Rethinking Globalism: Why We Need a Cell-Based Economy
What this worldwide recession proves: Globalism is a fatally flawed model in the present economic and ecologic sense. Protectionism may not be the answer, but nor is leaving one's country ripe for manipulation at the hands of commodities and foreign currency traders, resource shortages and above all too-close-to-the-bone ideas about corporate "efficiency" that make transcontinental supply chains so perilously thin and easy to disrupt. Why we need a cell-based economy. Stat.