MAGA voters ‘really don’t care’ about stockmarket shocks
If Trump’s tariffs don’t work to restore the economic prospects of ordinary Americans, it should be back to the drawing board for supporters of economic and political freedom.
If Trump’s tariffs don’t work to restore the economic prospects of ordinary Americans, it should be back to the drawing board for supporters of economic and political freedom.
Amid the cacophony of ignorant rage over the US tariffs, another obvious though no less significant point has been overlooked: Trump repeatedly said he would prefer to rely more on tariffs and less on income tax.
Five years on I should apologise for not having been as strident in condemning mass coerced Covid vaccination.
It’s a depressing time for anyone hoping to wrench Australia away from shuffling mindlessly down the path to European-style economic sclerosis.
Australia would be highly exposed to an all-out global trade war; the US has become the second-biggest export market for our farmers, among the most efficient producers in the world.
As a country we should be far more concerned about the reasons that Whyalla steelworks collapsed rather than about the theoretical future impacts of US tariffs.
Washington simply can’t afford to support another forever war in Ukraine, quite aside from the likely loss of life that ultimately includes US troops.
The future is unsettling and unpredictable, but what’s certain is that last century’s extremely expensive model of taxpayers subsidising physical GP visits is already becoming obsolete.
Had Elon Musk performed his (admittedly) bizarre thank you gesture to a crowd of Trump supporters in Australia, rather than the US, he could have found himself in jail.
Unfortunately Henry Kissinger’s famous quip in the wake of the Vietnam War, that ‘to be America’s enemy is dangerous, to be its friend is fatal’, looks like it will prove true for Ukraine as well.
Original URL: https://www.theaustralian.com.au/author/adam-creighton