News Summary

• Free markets are certainly a worthy ideal, but politicians always seem to get in the way.
• In the front of the line are tariffs, intended to reduce access to a nation’s market for a perceived enemy.
• The underpinning of economics is reality.
• Imposing artificiality on such a natural system perverts its function — and leads, oftentimes, to dysfunction, writes Julian Zelizer.
• to get people to purchase and install economically unfeasible solar panels and drive seriously expensive electric vehicles, subsidies had to be imposed.