Trump vs. General Motors
By Peter Skurkiss: Yes, GM has a responsibility to its shareholders. But the company lives in a bigger world than that. And the height of irony is that GM, which now outsources American jobs,…
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The Trump Electorate Found A Hole In Free-Market Theory
VERY interesting…a free trader admits one not-so-small hole in free-market theory. Here is Brian Domitrovic: The Donald J. Trump electorate, successful as it was in vaulting its candidate into power in the 2016 election, confounded…
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China: Trump Chooses the Harder but Wiser Path
Aaron Hirschi at American Thinker has posted an important article about China with a great number of links — here is its opening: Many experts are panicking about Trump’s economic punishments against China. They fear an economic downturn, a global depression,…
Read MoreRethinking Free Trade on the Campaign Trail
By Michael Noyes: There is increasing support from Republican politicians for trade deals that put the interests of American workers and businesses first at the negotiating table.
Read MoreDear Liberals: People Aren’t Commodities
By Spencer P. Morrison: Although international free trade looks like a good theory, it seldom works in reality. Why? Because underlying the theory are a number of false assumptions. Free trade’s logical foundation is…
Read MoreChina spy busted: Who, again, started the China trade war?
By Monica Showalter: China’s theft of trade secrets is part of its trade war against the U.S., and President Trump is the first one pushing back.
Read MoreWith NAFTA-busting deal, Trump negotiates his re-election
By Howard J. Warner: Anyone who has lived in this country for over 20 years is likely to notice the loss of manufacturing jobs as they have moved to Mexico and Asia. This was…
Read MoreHow Trump’s Tariffs Will Make Goods Cheaper
By Spencer P. Morrison: The logic seems straightforward enough: tariffs increase costs and these costs invariably get passed on to consumers. Thus, tariffs won’t punish China—they’ll punish American consumers. We will pay the price for…
Read MoreTrade Deficits Cost Jobs and Shrink GDP
By Spencer P. Morrison: It’s no secret that China has been, to quote President Trump, “ripping us off” for decades.
Read MoreTrump’s Chinese Tariffs Are a Necessary ‘Evil’
By Spencer P. Morrison: Modern Chinese bureaucrats, like their Qing predecessors, operate according to the simple maxim: China first.
Read MoreActually, Trump Is a Free Trade Hero
By Chris Buskirk: President Trump has stated on numerous occasions that he wants to increase trade. Under his wise rule, he assures us, American trade will thrive. It will be Yuge! Why would anyone…
Read MoreAmericans feel little from Trump tariffs; China is yet to budge on trade deals
By S.A. Miller: American consumers have not felt widespread price increases months after the Trump administration started rolling out tariffs, and economist Robert Scott says the doomsday predictions might never materialize. Read more: Washington…
Read MoreNAFTA 2.0 Won’t ‘Bring Back Our Jobs’
By Spencer P. Morrison: In 1993, President Bill Clinton promised that the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) would create “a million [American] jobs in the first five years.” He also said NAFTA’s “side…
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Was the Pre-Trump World Normal or Abnormal?
Here is Victor Davis Hanson writing about the pre-Trump world: The ‘unpresidential’ outsider disrupted America’s transformation into a ‘lead from behind’ nation. Much of the controversy that surrounds the policies of Donald Trump can…
Read MoreWhy is Trump fighting the trade war? – Part II
By Greg P. Richards: What Trump is doing is attacking (a) the trend and (b) the causes of the trend before it’s any more damaging – i.e., while America can still charge forward at…
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