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APPEL: China's Golden Goose (opens the original)
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The diplomatic relationship between China and the US is complex, but there is an economic aspect that gives the US the upper hand. The Chinese Communist Party, like socialist autocracies through history, is able to maintain itself by keeping the people, and more importantly the military, in line. They have done this for the last fifty years or so by using the West’s philosophy of free trade and open markets against us; massive trade imbalances resulting from high demand for manufacturing for exp
APPEL: Is The Glass Half-Full, Or Fully Empty? (opens the original)
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Stephanie Riegel wrote an article in the Advocate a few days ago asking if the mega-projects that have been announced in our state will measurably alter the economy. It is a valid question, but one that deserves another look from a different angle. That contra-view must be what would the state’s future look like if we had ignored the steps needed to attract these projects and they had gone somewhere else? Our state is extraordinarily rich in economic assets, yet our dependency on a hundred-year-
APPEL: Is 2026 A Watershed Year For Louisiana? (opens the original)
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Facebook Twitter0shares Political memory is a powerful thing, especially the lingering effects of a bad memory. The economic history of Louisiana is one of missed opportunities in a state rich in assets. Simplistically, I attribute that to the lingering effects of the populist answer to big industry that took all and returned little. Up until the time of Huey Long, Big Oil sucked the mineral wealth from our land and left little of the benefits and almost none of the prosperity. Sure, there were
APPEL: What Wisconsin and Minnesota Told Us About the Democrats (opens the original)
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So what do the Democratic primary election results from yesterday tell us? The highly favored wacko socialist Wisconsin governor candidate was beaten by an extremely Progressive Democrat, though he’s not the moderate the MSM portrays him as. And in Minnesota the highly favored wacko socialist Senate candidate blew away the competition. This tells first that the pollsters and pundits in Wisconsin were desperate to build the case that the socialist wave was a thing, but the people were paying atte
APPEL: Breaking The Chains That Prevent Growth (opens the original)
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So many times, I have written that the way to actually improve the lives of the citizens of Louisiana that live in New Orleans and the region, to reverse out-migration while, at the same time, breaking the cycle of poverty, is to refocus all civic and political energy on a growing economy. So, how would I suggest that we start on that concept. The first thing I would do is to commit to the belief that if we do the right things we have a future, that our city and region is not doomed to be like s
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