Posts Tagged ‘ Smoot-Hawley ’

Asiatic Adventurism, Part II

Oct 8th, 2010 | By | Category: Economics, Featured, International, Morning Whiskey
To follow up on the conversation we began the other day... Mr. Obama needs a short, victorious war before the election, but those are thin on the ground unless your name was Moshe Dyan or Golda Meir. Looking at the quotes I have to work with today, I think Barack's ...read more

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Smoot-Hawley Must Ride Again

Dec 29th, 2009 | By | Category: Featured, Investing Strategies, Morning Whiskey
Bring on this iteration of Depression's version of the Smoot-Hawley Act; just raising the cost of tires 150% for the Average Joe by enormous tariff increases wasn't enough to get the job done. Not even I, dear reader, chained by love twelve, fourteen, and more hours a day to my magical ...read more

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