Joseph Solis-Mullen
Author of The Fake China Threat and Its Very Real Danger, and The National Debt and You, Joseph Solis-Mullen is a political scientist, economist, and Ralph Raico Fellow at the Libertarian Institute. A graduate of Spring Arbor University, the University of Illinois, and the University of Missouri, his work can be found at the Ludwig Von Mises Institute, Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics, Libertarian Institute, Journal of Libertarian Studies, Journal of the American Revolution, and Antiwar.com. He teaches history and political science at SAU. You can contact him via [email protected] or find him on Twitter @solis_mullen.
Joseph Solis-Mullen Articles
One of the most common mistaken arguments against a return to sound money is that the dollar’s international dominance supposedly depends upon American military supremacy.
In Washington, bad ideas rarely die—they rebrand. Industrial policy—long discredited in theory and practice—has returned under the more palatable language of “resilience” and “strategic supply chains.” The Trump administration’s proposed...
Few things are more head-shakingly trying to the sound money economist than listening to the endless academic and policy debates about trade. Lost amidst the back and forth over surpluses and deficits, the “appropriate” level of subsidies...
In recent years, and with particular intensity since Donald Trump’s ascent to the political center stage, trade deficits have been increasingly cast as symbols of national weakness. Persistent US trade deficits are treated not as...
