In her excellent podcast, The Great Antidote, Juliette Sellgren often asks her guests to name one thing that they once…
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President Donald Trump and his fellow economic nationalists never tire of insisting that ordinary Americans have been harmed by free…
Read More » Donald and Melania Trump are eating breakfast together at Mar-a-Lago on the morning of January 21, 2029. At noon on…
Read More » Creating a long list of the familiar flaws in protectionists’ thinking is easy. Protectionists don’t realize that, although trade ‘destroys’…
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Read More » Rare is the day that passes during which I don’t, at least once (and usually more than once), say to…
Read More » Donald Trump is famously hostile to US trade deficits. He believes not only that these deficits harm the US economy,…
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Read More » Despite being a proud member of the University of Virginia School of Law Class of 1992, I’m an economist, not…
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Over the years, I — like all defenders of free trade — have had countless conversations with protectionists who are…
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