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In a Global Three-Way Poker Game, the U.S. Is the Sucker

There’s an old saying in poker: If you’re in a three-way poker game and you don’t know who the sucker is… you’re the sucker. The idea is that in a three-handed game, two players will disadvantage the sucker by coordinating their betting and not raising each other. Eventually, the sucker is cleaned out and the

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Once You Move Sourcing out of China, It Doesn’t Come Back

A lot of the criticism of Trump’s trade war tactics with China is based on a misunderstanding of the dynamics of global trade and global supply chains. When the U.S. imports goods from China and then imposes a tariff, the analysts simply multiply the quantity of goods by the size of the tariff and proclaim

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U.S. Military Braces for a Cutoff of Rare Earths by China

  In recent issues of Five Links, I’ve expressed my estimate that China will not cut off exports of rare earths to the U.S. as a way of fighting the trade wars. (Rare earths are metallic elements than can be used in pure form or combined to produce critical components for electronics and automobiles. They

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How Do Globalists View the Trade War?

The U.S. and Chinese governments have made their views on the ongoing trade wars clear. The U.S. insists that China is breaking all the rules and China insists that they will not allow the U.S. to dictate the operation of their economy. What about the global elites? They are watching from the sidelines since the

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