Are Cheap Imports Making Cheap Americans?

Editor’s note: Curtis Ellis makes a fundamental point. Trade policy should be about building investment in production as well as employment. The cheap consumer goods pursuit is the wrong path to national greatness, as the Asian economies have shown us. It’s well past time to ask whether procuring cheap imported consumer goods should be the…

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I-BAND holds annual meeting

Editors note: Brian O’Shaughnessy, CPA Vice Chairman, recently was keynote speaker at a North Dakota Cattle association conference . On Nov. 15-16, the Independent Beef Association of North Dakota (I-BAND) held its 14th annual meeting at the Ramada Wyndam in Bismarck. Dozens of cattle producers from across North Dakota and surrounding states participated in a…

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Why Americans are not paying for tariffs

Editor’s note: Curtis Ellis lays out the mechanics of why the tariffs are not raising prices.  Exclusive: Curtis Ellis explains ‘myriad (illegal) subsidies’ China continues to use [Curtis Ellis | November 29, 2019 | WND] Today we witnessed a central rite of one of the world’s great and growing state-sponsored religions. We saw frenzied acolytes…

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Who Pays the Tax on Imports from China?

Editor’s note: The Fed quietly admits, in this recent blog post, that tariffs are not increasing import prices. This is a big admission, which counters the assertions of Princeton economists who released a study claiming the opposite.   [Matthew Higgins, Thomas Klitgaard, and Michael Nattinger | November 28, 2019 | Liberty Street Economics] Tariffs are a…

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