free trade
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Budgets/TaxesEconomics
No, Mr. President, Tariffs Do Not Cause Prosperity
by Jeffrey Tucker May 10, 2019The prospect that the US president would conclude that tariffs cause growth has always been the downside of good economic numbers.
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It was amusing, yesterday, to see the President of the United States with his counter-part from the EU, a Luxembourgian.
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Budgets/Taxes
Left Critical of Trump Steel Tariffs—Does This Mean They’ll Then Scrap the “Tariff” Economy They Helped Create?
by Todd Gabel March 8, 2018What do Democrats plan to do with the tariff economy they themselves helped create?
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I am a retired musician. I play three instruments – but I sang, is what I mainly did. My first band in high school was big into three-part vocal harmonies. We covered a bunch of songs – and wrote a few – that featured this rousing sound.
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Economics
Things Global Trade Are, Slowly, Moving In A Less Government Direction
by Seton Motley April 13, 2017When now-President Donald Trump first burst onto the political scene, one of the ways he made a name for himself was by ridiculing many of the trade deals the United States has spent the last several decades cutting.
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An often forgotten truth is that it is not just military warfare that can cause injury to innocent bystanders, the same inescapable happens in economic warfare initiated by governments, as well. But in the latter case, the human “collateral damage” is a targeted victim.
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Economics
James Mill, David Ricardo and the Triumph of Free Trade
by Richard Ebeling January 25, 2017We are in the midst of marking the centenary of the First World War, which was fought from 1914 to 1918.
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Economics
Trump Promised To Get Tough On China’s ‘Massive’ Intellectual Property Theft…
by Seton Motley January 12, 2017Trump’s choice of Lighthizer is excellent personnel – to finally deliver us the vastly improved Chinese IP policy candidate Trump promised.
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EconomicsFeaturedGovernment
Economic Ideas: Adam Ferguson and Society as a Spontaneous Order
by Richard Ebeling December 1, 2016One of the most cherished misunderstandings, if not delusions, of the social engineer – the individual who would presume to attempt to remake society through conscious and planned design – is the confident belief that he (and those like him) can ever know enough to successfully remold mankind and human institutions.
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As an educator and a patriot, my good friend and mentor, Elizabeth A. Clarke, wanted to make sure that upon her death in June of this year young people would carry on her fight for freedom and liberty, which Elizabeth continued up until the day before her death.
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FeaturedRegulationUncategorized
Policy Positions: Free Trade vs. Political Ignorance
by Richard Ebeling June 20, 2016Listening to the presumptive Republican and Democratic candidates for the White House, the average voter would think that international trade and investment is a zero sum game in which there is a “winner” and a “loser.” Their economic policy assumption is that other countries are gaining at the international trade game at the expense of the United States.
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EconomicsFeatured
Government Subsidizes, Government Warps and Distorts – Government Bails Out
by Seton Motley June 2, 2016Why have prices fallen so low? Because government subsidies created a glut – and the market is flooded. This government money warps and distorts the marketplace – as otherwise productively-directed time and effort is instead spent chasing the government coin. Producers produce not what the marketplace needs – but for what the government pays.