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Yesterday I was interviewed by Marketplace‘s Nancy Marshall-Genzer on Trump’s proposed scheme to cook the trade-account books ^[2].

Speaking of cooking the books for political purposes, here’s more from Rick Newman ^[3].

Warren Meyer joins Pierre Lemieux in being among those who clearly and convincingly explain why ECON 101 most emphatically does not teach – contrary to the ignorant assertions of some of Trump’s advisors – that trade deficits reduce GDP ^[4].

In this video, the Cato Institute’s Alex Nowrasteh (a former student of mine at GMU) goes head-to-head with Tucker Carlson on immigration ^[5].  (HT Tim Townsend)

Roy Cordato helps to dispel some popular myths about trade – myths peddled by economically ignorant people on the political right and on the left ^[6].

Here’s more from Richard Ebeling on Karl Marx ^[7].

My Mercatus Center colleague Bob Graboyes draws a lesson about health-care from Robert Mundell’s observation that the greatest invention of the 20th century might well be the chicken ^[8].

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