Though widely opposed if not despised – including by many Republicans – the Trump Administration’s trade policy is delivering impressive results, writes Henry Olsen at Commonplace. Tariffs will likely haul in US$360 billion this fiscal year – while recession is nowhere in sight. Growth is strong, wages are rising, unemployment is barely 4 percent (vs. Canada’s 7 percent) and stock markets are setting records. Tariffs, Olsen suggests, could become the new orthodoxy.
Toppling a Communist Empire for $2.7 Million
Though widely thought of as focused on waterboarding terrorists or poisoning foreign potentates, it was by smuggling paper that the CIA achieved its most monumental triumph. R.M. Gerecht in a book review for The Washington Free Beacon charts how the late Cold War-era operation to flood Poland with Western books, magazines, printing supplies and audio recordings fatally weakened the country’s Communist dictatorship, setting the stage for the downfall of the entire Soviet empire. Total cost: US$2.7 million.