National Review

President Trump isn’t the first U.S. leader to turn a Canadian election with a few remarks. A little over a century back another president, William Howard Taft, managed the same feat. | Amity Shlaes

Joe Nocera has written what feels like the thousandth think piece about how the cold, heartless "neoliberals" took over all of American economic policy in the 1990s and have been proven wrong thanks to Donald Trump. | Dominic Pino

The government should not be picking winners and losers depending on where you choose to hold your mutual fund savings. | Ryan Ellis

Lower taxes, fewer regulations, and open trade are the formula for prosperity. Conservatives used to understand this. | Veronique de Rugy

The Trump economic agenda, as it stands, is a mix of rose-colored nostalgia, economic nationalism, and fiscal denialism. | Veronique de Rugy

There is plenty of truth to the claims that other countries use protectionism to benefit their industries. But the US is guilty of this as well, often to a greater extent than other countries are. | Dominic Pino

There is no shortage of sophisticated explanations about Trump's supposedly real goals of promoting US exports or negotiating more free trade deals. But Trump now says it isn't primarily about any of that. | Dominic J. Pino

CAPITAL RECORD: “When Engagement is Enjoyable and Valuable” The issue of shareholder engagement is one we have covered a lot here in the Capital Record. Our partner in this endeavor, Bowyer Research, has gotten the attention of Bloomberg, unsurprisingly wanting to paint them as “conservative activists.” But what if the reason this matters is not to counter left-wing politics, or impose right-wing politics, but rather, to drive shareholder value? Is it really that hard to understand why these issues matter to the improvement of company performance? It’s time to unpack!

One week later, there’s still no official explanation for the blackout in Spain and Portugal that left 50 million without electricity. | Jim Geraghty

Tax burdens are cleverly hidden in layers and layers of rules. And with taxes at the center of Congress’s attention this year, it is time for childish hide-and-seek games to be left behind. | Daniel D. Bunn