Taking on China
Yesterday, President Trumpsaid the following about how he was “taking on” China in relation to its trade policy:But one thing I have to do is economically take on China because China has been ripping us off for many years. President Clinton, President Bush, and President Obama, and others should have done this long before me. My life would be much easier — although I enjoy doing it — but my life would be much easier if I just said, “Let China continue to rip off the United States.” All right? It would be much easier, but I can’t do that.We are winning against China. They ’ve lost two and a half million jobs...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - August 22, 2019 Category: American Health Authors: Simon Lester Source Type: blogs
Sunday Sermonette: Bizarro World
There are numerous candidates for most bizarre passage in the Bible. The circumcision of Moses is right up there, for example. Exodus 17 is actually two episodes -- remember that the division into chapter and verse was done my Medieval monks and does not represent any indigenous property of the text. The first story is well known, though it is rather strange. The second story, however . . . deeply, profoundly wacko. Here goes.The whole Israelite community set out from the Desert of Sin, traveling from place to place as theLord commanded. They camped at Rephidim, but there was no water for the people to drink.2 So they...
Source: Stayin' Alive - August 11, 2019 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
Fight Aging! Newsletter, August 12th 2019
We examined 9293 individuals from the Copenhagen General Population Study using nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy measurements of total cholesterol, free- and esterified cholesterol, triglycerides, phospholipids, and particle concentration. Fourteen subclasses of decreasing size and their lipid constituents were analysed: six subclasses were very low-density lipoprotein (VLDL), one intermediate-density lipoprotein (IDL), three low-density lipoprotein (LDL), and four subclasses were high-density lipoprotein (HDL). Remnant lipoproteins were VLDL and IDL combined.
Mean nonfasting cholesterol concentration was 72...
Source: Fight Aging! - August 11, 2019 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs
An Interview with Reason at Undoing Aging 2019
Much of the proceedings at Undoing Aging in Berlin earlier this year were recorded, but of course it takes a few months for everything to process through the queue. I briefly escaped from the conference for an ad hoc, unstructured discussion with Adam Ford of Science, Technology, and the Future, who, like the Life Extension Advocacy Foundation folk, was interviewing as many people as he could during the event. It wound up a monologue on topics that were at the top of my mind at the time, particularly the present state of funding and the transformation of our community from a primary focus on advocacy and academic research ...
Source: Fight Aging! - August 5, 2019 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Healthy Life Extension Community Source Type: blogs
The Democratic Presidential Hopefuls are Failing Us on Trade
One of the few hopeful, “glass-half-full” thoughts I had after Donald Trump won the election in 2016 was that the new president would prove to be the best salesman of free trade since Adam Smith. No, I wasn’t so deluded to think he’d articulate the case for free trade and commit himself to removing all protectionis t barriers. On the contrary, I assumed Trump’s reckless deployment of tariffs and other trade restrictions would backfire so spectacularly and expose the folly of protectionism so convincingly that the economically discredited philosophy would become politically radioactive, once and for all.Well, the ...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - July 30, 2019 Category: American Health Authors: Daniel J. Ikenson Source Type: blogs
