free trade
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The Resurgence of Do It Yourself Economics
Many national fiscal policies are steeped in lore and dogma, immune to the reasoned objections of actual economists.
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US Trade Policy is a Humanitarian and Geopolitical Disaster
Trump’s tariffs killed the US’s soft power, leaving a geopolitical vacuum into which US rivals like China will expand.
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Victor David Hanson and his Smoot-Hawley Strawman
Economists don’t claim that tariffs caused the Great Depression, but tariffs make bad times worse.
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Trade Is Not a Light Switch: Why Cutting Global Ties Will Leave Long-Lasting Scars
The damage done by Trump’s tariffs is not some transient dip in output or a blip in prices. It is a structural downgrade in our capacity to create.
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Scrapped Ventilators and Sovereign Wealth: Why Central Planners Shouldn’t Invest
Cutting waste at USAID while launching an utterly doomed Sovereign Wealth Fund is incongruous at best.
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Milei’s First Year: Liberty, Less Regulation, Low Inflation
One year into his presidency, Javier Milei has outperformed any reasonable expectations, except perhaps his own.
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An External Revenue Service?
The only difference between taxes and tariffs is the location of the seller. Regardless, the buyer pays the cost.
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Dynamia, Not Stagnatia
Specialized labor and freely shifting markets result in creative destruction, but also mutual enrichment. Where would you want to live?
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‘Greedflation’ Claims Distract, Drive Policy in the Wrong Direction
Blaming producers for higher prices obscures true policy failures and economic bad actors — perhaps deliberately.
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Biden Expanded Executive Power to Kill the US Steel-Nippon Merger
In an increasingly interconnected global economy, clinging to outdated protectionist measures is a losing strategy.
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•
The Resurgence of Do It Yourself Economics
Many national fiscal policies are steeped in lore and dogma, immune to the reasoned objections of actual economists.
-
•
US Trade Policy is a Humanitarian and Geopolitical Disaster
Trump’s tariffs killed the US’s soft power, leaving a geopolitical vacuum into which US rivals like China will expand.
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•
Victor David Hanson and his Smoot-Hawley Strawman
Economists don’t claim that tariffs caused the Great Depression, but tariffs make bad times worse.
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•
Trade Is Not a Light Switch: Why Cutting Global Ties Will Leave Long-Lasting Scars
The damage done by Trump’s tariffs is not some transient dip in output or a blip in prices. It is a structural downgrade in our capacity to create.
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•
Scrapped Ventilators and Sovereign Wealth: Why Central Planners Shouldn’t Invest
Cutting waste at USAID while launching an utterly doomed Sovereign Wealth Fund is incongruous at best.
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•
Milei’s First Year: Liberty, Less Regulation, Low Inflation
One year into his presidency, Javier Milei has outperformed any reasonable expectations, except perhaps his own.
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•
An External Revenue Service?
The only difference between taxes and tariffs is the location of the seller. Regardless, the buyer pays the cost.
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•
Dynamia, Not Stagnatia
Specialized labor and freely shifting markets result in creative destruction, but also mutual enrichment. Where would you want to live?
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•
‘Greedflation’ Claims Distract, Drive Policy in the Wrong Direction
Blaming producers for higher prices obscures true policy failures and economic bad actors — perhaps deliberately.
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•
Biden Expanded Executive Power to Kill the US Steel-Nippon Merger
In an increasingly interconnected global economy, clinging to outdated protectionist measures is a losing strategy.