Tariffs: Reality Check

In 1776 Adam Smith stated: “It is the maxim of every prudent master of a family, never to attempt to make at home what it will cost him more to make than to buy. If a foreign country can make it, better buy it of them with some part of the produce of our own industry, employed in a way in which we have some advantage.” This is the natural order of economics. Tariffs attempt to disrupt this law of Read More

The Slow Drain on America (Part II): Espionage, China, and American Business

Previously I addressed America’s increasing awareness of the associated risks in cyber and digital systems, yet so many commercial businesses still lack hardened security programs capable of protecting sensitive information. Espionage between nation-states has taken a popular new form over the last decade and civilian America is slow to understand this new phenomenon of spying tactics. Commercial businesses and government has fallen in love with the advantages of new technology but due to the preference of ease of data that Read More