Free Trade
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Freer Trade and Economic Growth: Evidence of the Relationship
Even if the reduction of trade barriers accounts for only a small part of the observed increase in growth, the cumulative gains from reform appear to be substantial.
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A Protectionist Is Someone Who…
A protectionist cannot adequately explain why each and every household in the world does not itself literally build its own home.
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Who Pays the Tariffs (Video of Ed Stringham on Cheddar)
Is Trump engaged in a high-stakes game to bring about freer trade with China, or just looking for a way to justify the tariffs that he claims have revived American manufacturing?
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Protectionists in Plunderland and Wonderland
The Wonderland of sincere protectionists is truly a crackpot unreality.
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Currency Devaluation Is No Ticket to National Prosperity
If a government manages to undervalue its currency in terms of foreign currencies, it subsidizes the consumption of foreigners who purchase its country’s exports. And while gains are reaped by those of its citizens who work to supply goods for export, currency undervaluation makes most of that country’s citizens poorer.
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The Constitution Gives the Trade Power to Congress Alone
Because this is a tool the president can actually use — and because it bypasses the much more difficult task of having to persuade Congress of the merits of his ideas — Trump is using the tariff weapon more and more to address matters further and further removed from trade.
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America’s Economic Commissar of Trade
In this he is no less of an economic tyrant than, say, Nicolas Maduro, the socialist dictator of Venezuela. He, too, rules by command and decree.
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China Is Not the Enemy
If we persist in reducing their brilliant progress to anything other than hard work being matched with freedom, we risk turning the biggest consumers of all things American against the United States. The economic consequences for the American people will be unfortunate.
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Is Trump’s Ultimate Goal Global Free Trade?
Trump has pontificated on trade for decades, with words that reveal him as a clichéd economic nationalist.
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The Trade War’s New Level of Bizarre
The Trump administration pulled back from the brink of disaster in trade relations with Mexico — but there is reason to doubt that this unusual display of good sense indicates a change in intellectual orientation, much less a lasting shift in policy. The man-made trade mess of the last year and a half is likely…
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Freer Trade and Economic Growth: Evidence of the Relationship
Even if the reduction of trade barriers accounts for only a small part of the observed increase in growth, the cumulative gains from reform appear to be substantial.
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•
A Protectionist Is Someone Who…
A protectionist cannot adequately explain why each and every household in the world does not itself literally build its own home.
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•
Who Pays the Tariffs (Video of Ed Stringham on Cheddar)
Is Trump engaged in a high-stakes game to bring about freer trade with China, or just looking for a way to justify the tariffs that he claims have revived American manufacturing?
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•
Protectionists in Plunderland and Wonderland
The Wonderland of sincere protectionists is truly a crackpot unreality.
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•
Currency Devaluation Is No Ticket to National Prosperity
If a government manages to undervalue its currency in terms of foreign currencies, it subsidizes the consumption of foreigners who purchase its country’s exports. And while gains are reaped by those of its citizens who work to supply goods for export, currency undervaluation makes most of that country’s citizens poorer.
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The Constitution Gives the Trade Power to Congress Alone
Because this is a tool the president can actually use — and because it bypasses the much more difficult task of having to persuade Congress of the merits of his ideas — Trump is using the tariff weapon more and more to address matters further and further removed from trade.
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•
America’s Economic Commissar of Trade
In this he is no less of an economic tyrant than, say, Nicolas Maduro, the socialist dictator of Venezuela. He, too, rules by command and decree.
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•
China Is Not the Enemy
If we persist in reducing their brilliant progress to anything other than hard work being matched with freedom, we risk turning the biggest consumers of all things American against the United States. The economic consequences for the American people will be unfortunate.
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•
Is Trump’s Ultimate Goal Global Free Trade?
Trump has pontificated on trade for decades, with words that reveal him as a clichéd economic nationalist.
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•
The Trade War’s New Level of Bizarre
The Trump administration pulled back from the brink of disaster in trade relations with Mexico — but there is reason to doubt that this unusual display of good sense indicates a change in intellectual orientation, much less a lasting shift in policy. The man-made trade mess of the last year and a half is likely…