Editor’s note: Boeing is helping Beijing’s bid to dominate airplane production and airline services as they joint ventures with government owned companies. Boeing will sell a few planes for 3-5 years, then will get squeezed out like Apple.  It is the same if you are looking to fly from Bangkok to Los Angeles. Or from Singapore…

Editor’s note. This is a nice synopsis alluding to the American System of Economics which the administration’s trade team seems to be returning to. Hamilton and Frederich List (German) dismissed Adam Smith as a cosmopolitan economist. See Michael Stumo’s speech to the Jessie Helms Center annual conference on the same topic here.  President Trump defended his…

Editor’s note: This rumored tightening of Buy America rules for government procurement is welcome. There is a strong anti-Buy America group of congressmen and senators that often block similar rules in legislation.  The White House is preparing a new executive order expanding rules favoring American-made products in government projects, according to four administration officials and…