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Today’s global crisis highlights that mineral and energy dependence is a major vulnerability to our economy.

We remain the only country actually cutting our own economic throat in the name of “climate change.”

The US has driven the semiconductor industry nigh completely out of domestic existence – through titanically stupid over-tax, over-regulatory and America Last, one-sided, fake “free trade” policies.

US-EU trade talks are already stalled over agriculture issues. And yet the European Union’s new “Farm to Fork” strategy doubles down on the EU’s contentious agricultural regulations.

It was French king Louis XIV (1638-1715) who famously declared, “L’etat c’est moi” (“I am the state”). This week, it was clearer than usual that this is an attitude apparently shared by Donald Trump, president of the United States. 

A new paper forthcoming in the journal American Economic Review: Insights estimates the effect of trade with China on American consumers and shows us what we stand to lose if we don’t end the trade war.

Many self-described free marketeers vociferously oppose antitrust laws.

Donny Kendal and John Nothdurft are joined by Justin Haskins in episode #144 of the In The Tank Podcast. Today’s podcast features work from The Heritage Foundation, the Cato Institute, the Manhattan Institute, and the Tax Foundation.

Will tariffs on imported steel and aluminum help or harm US workers?

What do Democrats plan to do with the tariff economy they themselves helped create?

Trump’s choice of Lighthizer is excellent personnel – to finally deliver us the vastly improved Chinese IP policy candidate Trump promised.

Adam 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.

In this episode of the weekly Budget & Tax News podcast, managing editor and research fellow Jesse Hathaway is joined by Mercatus Center senior research fellow Daniel Griswold, talking about why “globalization” is not a dirty word, despite what politicians may be telling people this year.