Xi Jinping Braces For Struggle 

Xi Jinping China’s long standing and presumably long-term leader, well known for his use of political purges to centralize power, and ensure his ongoing position within the Chinese Leadership.  In each of his previous terms he has launched at least one major campaign that has radically changed the make-up of China’s political establishment. Recently, The…

Improving on the One Big Beautiful Reconciliation Bill

The budget reconciliation legislation recently passed by the House of Representatives, better known as the “One Big Beautiful Bill,” contains several provisions that will benefit taxpayers, but there are opportunities for the Senate to make it even better. The Senate should remove, for example, a provision in the House bill that would end the longstanding…

Xi Jinping Braces For Struggle 

Xi Jinping China’s long standing and presumably long-term leader, well known for his use of political purges to centralize power, and ensure his ongoing position within the Chinese Leadership.  In each of his previous terms he has launched at least one major campaign that has radically changed the make-up of China’s political establishment. Recently, The…

Who Really Sets Tariffs—and How?

Tariffs are economic policy tools employed for all kinds of purposes. They have been used to raise revenue, to shield domestic firms from foreign competition, as a negotiating tactic against other nations, and as a means of imposing economic sanctions. In certain situations, even the threat of tariffs is enough to impel other nations to…

Is the EU a Free Trade Zone?

On January 1, 1993, the European Single Market came into being. The previous October, British Prime Minister John Major had looked forward to “a single European market of 330 million people…A market for British computers. British cars. British televisions. British textiles. British services. British skills. The biggest free trade area in the world.”  By eliminating…