Free trade Utopianism renders U.S. dependent on Russian helicopters

By: Mike gamecock DeVine (Diary)  |  June 24th at 11:13 AM  | 

But have you seen how cheap are a pair of outsourced Levi jeans at the Mall of America? A conversation with Russian President Dmitri Medvedev last March over a live microphone, that our President thought private, famously revealed Barack Obama asking for Tsar Putin’s patience on arms negotiations since a re-elected Obama would have more “flexibility” to sell out U.S. national security on armaments after | Read More »

Le Sueur peas, Wal-Mart briefs, free trade betrayals and a middle class coming apart

By: Mike gamecock DeVine (Diary)  |  May 6th at 09:17 AM  | 

Of tariffs, quotas, Utopian free market consumerism, the nation state, and the “most efficient allocation of resources” including those that used to weave in the cotton mills of my hometown Never thought much about tariffs, despite having matriculated my way to a B.A. in economics in a Southern hometown arguably ravaged by the lack of same for textiles. After all, my family worked for union | Read More »