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Learning the Lessons of Protectionism the Hard Way Feb. 28, 2019
Protectionism begets protectionism. The latest example of this sad state of affairs comes to us via ... Read More
All the Pro-Trade Democrats Go Missing Feb. 19, 2019
Does anyone know where all those free trade Democrats went? Since Donald Trump burst onto the scene,... Read More
Time for Humility for Davos Elite Feb. 01, 2019
Turnout at Davos was lousy this year. President Trump, preoccupied by the government shutdown, was a... Read More
Killing 2 Birds With 1 Millstone Hung Around America's Neck Jan. 31, 2019
Wisconsin Republican congressman Sean Duffy recently introduced a bill to give President Trump new p... Read More
While America Slept, China Gained a Stranglehold on the Panama Canal Jan. 14, 2019
Decades have passed since tiny Panama ranked among Washington's big national security concerns. The ... Read More
Trump's Trade Talk: NAFTA, the New NAFTA or No NAFTA? Dec. 06, 2018
After spending months complaining about the disparity between the United States and other nations' d... Read More
Are Globalists Plotting a Counter-Revolution? Aug. 07, 2018
On meeting with the EU's Jean-Claude Juncker last month, Donald Trump tweeted: "Both the U.S. and th... Read More
Has Trump Become a Free Trader? Aug. 05, 2018
The Trump administration has a new agenda: bringing about a new world of free, robust and unfettered... Read More
Did Tariffs Make America Great? Jul. 27, 2018
"Make America Great Again!" will, given the astonishing victory it produced for Donald Trump, be rec... Read More
Jumping From the Free Trade Ship to the Protectionist Fair Trade Ship Jun. 07, 2018
Are there any free market principles Republicans won't abandon at the altar of political expediency?... Read More
Don't Buy Free Trade Myths Mar. 14, 2018
President Donald Trump's new tariffs on steel and aluminum imports are facing an avalanche of false ... Read More
Trump on Trade: Better Than Smoot-Hawley? Mar. 09, 2018
Donald Trump's announcement that he is imposing tariffs on steel and aluminum imports from other cou... Read More
Donald Trump and Free Trade Mar. 08, 2018
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump has had a splendid first year in office. He has the econom... Read More
No Trade Barriers Mar. 07, 2018
No, President Trump, it's not true that if you tax imported steel, we "will have protection for the ... Read More
Fatal Delusions of Western Man Mar. 02, 2018
"We got China wrong. Now what?" ran the headline over the column in The Washington Post. "Remember h... Read More
It's Trump's Party Now Oct. 27, 2017
"More is now required of us than to put down our thoughts in writing," declaimed Jeff Flake in his o... Read More
America's Dumb War Against Trade Jul. 11, 2017
Donald Trump bragged that he would put America in the driver's seat. He would keep us out of trade a... Read More
'America First' Is Not a Threat but a Promise Jan. 27, 2017
"From this day forward, it's going to be only America first, America first," Donald Trump proclaimed... Read More
The Anti-Business Businessman Jan. 19, 2017
We've been instructed not to take our new president literally but instead seriously (in the felicito... Read More
Don't Back Off From Freedom of Global Trade Nov. 22, 2016
Campaigning is one thing. Governing, especially at the presidential level, is another. Some know thi... Read More
