free trade

What! A free-market economist who supports tariffs?

Free market economists have always favored free trade. That means there are no quotas or tariffs imposed by any country…

3 years ago

Biden’s ‘Buy American’ Order on Steel Is Right Out of ‘Atlas Shrugged’

For months now, the Biden administration has said they are taking inflation seriously. Unfortunately, their actions seem to suggest otherwise.…

3 years ago

Buy American? What Protectionists Get Wrong about Free Trade

Even many of those who are otherwise inclined in the direction of free enterprise have an Achilles Heel when it…

3 years ago

Watch: President Trump and President Juncker Announce Trade Deal in Joint Statements [video + transcript]

President Donald Trump and President Jean-Paul Juncker hold a joint press conference Wednesday. The two leaders had spent the day…

7 years ago

Watch: President Trump talks free trade, national security and North Korea at G7 press conference 6/9/18 [video + transcript]

President Donald Trump held an unscheduled press conference Saturday morning following talks with the leaders of the G7 countries. The…

7 years ago

Only free trade is truly fair

The current dichotomy which is being promoted between “fair trade” and “free trade” is utterly nonsensical. Free trade is the…

8 years ago

What is the Trans-Pacific Partnership?

While the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) has been in the works for a decade, only recently has it become front-page news.…

10 years ago

Stop Maligning the Export-Import Bank. America Needs It.

Recently, pseudoconservative Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) and a few of his Congressional chums, along with the neoconservative Heritage Foundation, have…

11 years ago

The lies of free trade proponents

In his SOTU speech, Barack Obama announced that his Administration is (unconstitutionally and thus illegally) negotiating trade agreements with the…

12 years ago

Free trade is for idiots

For decades, globalists and libertarian free trade ideologues have been telling us that free trade has been "good" for America,…

12 years ago