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By John Mauldin, February 19, 2017 Free, or Fair? Tariffs Ruin Christmas Retail Rubble Manufacturing Jobs Are the Last War Dollar Disaster Game Theory: Destroying the Nash Equilibrium Revisiting Hooverville A Most Intricately Balanced Nash Equilibrium...

Long-simmering tensions with Mexico come to a head. Long-simmering tensions between Donald Trump and the government of Mexico kicked off over the past 24 hours in a back-and-forth that began with a fiery speech from Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto...

More than 100 retailers including Wal-Mart and Target as well as key trade associations are launching a new coalition aimed at fighting a Republican proposal on how imports get taxed, a measure they believe would harm their businesses. The National...

Lots to cover, including the latest bizarre twists at Fukushima after the jump/ Our first story, in which the third point precisely refutes the claim made just before, comes from the Department of Ironic Self Refutation via the London Daily Mail: Home...

One way to approach open borders is to liberalize migration rules in existing policies. Another is to found new polities with open borders, along the lines of what French philosopher Jacques Derrida called “cities of refuge,” or what economist...