President Trump likes big round numbers, and he's endorsed one -- $1 trillion -- for the U.S. defense budget. This is the right idea, and we'll need even more soon enough. It is the president's wont to declare national emergencies, whether a given situation warrants it or not, but the state of ...
We don't grow much coffee within the United States. Only Hawaii and Puerto Rico are really capable of it and even if we started up tomorrow, American consumers demand so much that we would still need to import it. Tariffs will cause the price of coffee to go up. Profit margins are so low in the ...
Dear editor at the Daily Mining Gazette: It is said that the darkest hour is just before the dawn. Could this be the dawning of the Age of Aquarius? Could we live to see the Second Coming? Might the United States be part of the solution? Can democracy work? Of course! And we have ...
It has been hard this past week, of tariffs applied worldwide on April 2 to tariffs suspended except for China on April 9, to avoid reflecting on how much trouble could have been avoided if economists, instead of talking about countries' trade surpluses and trade deficits, had devised different ...
This trade war with Canada is not the first. Forty-five years ago, Maine potato farmers piled rotten potatoes at their state's borders with New Brunswick. Blocking nine crossings, the Mainers accused Canada of unfairly subsidizing its potato growers, thus driving down the prices they could get. ...
Millions of Americans know the frustration of dealing with the Social Security Administration — endless hold music on the phone, months of waiting for a simple benefit decision, and confusing paperwork. Even before the latest reforms, the SSA's customer service — in an agency delivering ...