free trade
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Budgets/TaxesFeaturedLiberty
Free Market Think Tank Crackdown Is A Setback For Freedom
by Art Carden August 30, 2019Chinese economic liberalization has been responsible for the biggest mass movement out of extreme poverty in human history.
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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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EconomicsFeaturedGovernmentRegulation
I Dislike Tariffs; I Dislike Intellectual Property Theft Much, Much More
by Seton Motley May 24, 2018We’ve oft written about the abject phoniness that poses as “free trade” in Washington, D.C.
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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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Listening to the rhetoric coming from the Trump Administration, it would be easy to assume that America’s balance of trade deficit is causing market misery and economic harm to the people of the United States. Nothing could be further from the truth.
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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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Budgets/TaxesEconomics
It’s Not ‘Free Trade’ – If They’re Stealing Tons Of Our Stuff
by Seton Motley February 24, 2017The United States is an $18-trillion-Gross-Domestic-Product-800-pound-gorilla in the global trade room. We have leverage to burn when it comes to cutting deals. We have thus far used…none of it.
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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
Economic Ideas: Adam Smith on Free Trade, Crony Capitalism, and the Benefits from Commercial Society
by Richard Ebeling December 21, 2016Adam Smith’s central contribution to economic understanding was surely his demonstration that under an institutional arrangement of individual liberty, property rights, and voluntary exchange the self-interested conduct of market participants could be shown to be consistent with a general betterment of the human condition.
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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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Personal and economic freedom are under attack in the United States and in many other parts of the world. This is seen most clearly in this year’s contest for the White House. In all the rhetoric about America’s political, social, and economic problems that is heard from the lips of the Democratic and Republican presidential candidates, there is one phrase that is hardly ever mentioned or considered important: the liberty of the individual.
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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.