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3) As a historian, you should know how the Smoot-Hawley tariffs choked the Japanese economy in the 1930s and eventually led to Pearl Harbor. Trump’s draconian tariffs on China could have similar unintended consequences. With all due respect, this is embarrassingly absurd. Smoot-Hawley did not choke the Japanese economy. It had near zero effect on
Dear Professor Hanson, I respect you as a historian, but an economist you are not. Your seeming support for Trump’s tariffs has been thoroughly refuted by the folks at the WSJ. I will not repeat their arguments. You ask the right questions but completely ignore the unintended consequences of Trump’s actions. I will make my
Ultra Subscribers: Victor Davis Hanson talks about all the icons of the Democratic Party like Kilmar Abrego Garcia, Karmelo Anthony, Mahmoud Khalil, and Luigi Mangione. Share This
Victor Davis Hanson Ultra Subcriber Consider the massive increase in federal spending in the 21st century, which some may call the greatest “stimulus” package in history. Did printing and pouring all that money into huge federal programs and entitlements spur economic growth—albeit in a suicidal and unsustainable fashion that has now caught up to us?
Victor Davis Hanson Ultra Subscribers No one wishes a trade war with anyone. But has anyone listened to the thirty-year-old video clips of a much younger, much more impassioned Rep. Nancy Pelosi, Sen. Chuck Schumer, and former President Bill Clinton railing against incipient turn-of-the-century Chinese mercantilism of the 1990s? Many of their speeches damned trade
Hello Ultra Subscribers: Victor talks about the various hands held by China and the US in this high-stakes diplomacy. I you get the picture, remember you need to login. If you are on the app, you may need to go to a browser interface temporarily. We are working on the app to get the audio
RE: Trade Deficit Listening to your March 29, discussion on the trade deficit I would like to share with you Dr. Milton Friedman’s comments, to paraphrase: Let me get this straight, they send us cars, stereos, VCRs and on and on and we send them these little green pieces of paper, and we’re supposed to
“Be Careful” What you are is some ultra-right wing magot cocksucker that at best should be exiled to Russia. You have no fucking idea as to what Americans, real hard working, freedom loving Americans want or need. Dennis Kurt Goodrum Dear Angry Reader Dennis Kurt Goodrum, Usually, I don’t print threats such as yours (e.g.,
Ultra Subscribers: Victor examines the recent anti-Trump news coming for the Wall Street Journal as illustrative of the media bias. The WSJ was always considered center-right. Can it still be considered right at all? If you only see a picture, then click on the title. It prompts you to login and the video will show.