Currency Revaluation Won’t Fix America’s Trade Mess
Ian Fletcher Activist Post It is sometimes suggested that our trade problems (job losses, international indebtedness) will go away on their own once currency values…
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Dreamy Thinking on Free Trade
Ian Fletcher Activist Post Globalization and, more specifically, free trade have a remarkable capacity for inducing dreamy thinking in American minds. The “everything will be…
U.S. Manufacturing “Red Hot”? Dream On
Ian Fletcher Activist Post There is an article in the Huffington Post which, before apparently being retitled, asserted in its headline that U.S. manufacturing is…
We Can’t Just Compensate Free Trade’s Losers
Ian Fletcher Activist Post It is sometimes argued that although free trade has some victims, its benefits exceed its costs, so it is possible for…
Trade Solutions That Won’t Work
Ian Fletcher Activist Post Americans in recent decades have not, of course, been entirely unaware that America has a trade problem. This has drawn into…
Why a Flat Tariff on All U.S. Imports Would Work
Ian Fletcher Activist Post I advocate protectionism. But one standard criticism is that this would just result in politically connected industries getting tariffs raised on…
In Praise of Mercantilism, or Why Economic History Isn’t Boring
Ian Fletcher Activist Post Does economic history hold a giant clue for getting America out of its present trade mess? Yes, because it debunks the…
Yes We Can! (Fix Our Trade Mess)
Ian Fletcher Activist Post The fashionable despair of America fixing its trade mess is a mistake. For example, the standard objection to taking a stick…
Why Have Nations At All? The Case For Economic Borders
Ian Fletcher Activist Post Why have nations at all, economically speaking? This question is provoked by the fact that every few months, without fail, somebody…
American Manufacturing Slowly Rotting Away: How Industries Die
Ian Fletcher Activist Post I wrote in a previous article about why America’s manufacturing sector, despite record output, is actually in very deep trouble: record…
Challenging The Conventional Wisdom on Free Trade
Ian Fletcher Activist Post Free trade has been the conventional wisdom in the U.S. for so long that many people have forgotten that it is…
Deepening Canada-U.S. Security and Military Ties
Dana Gabriel Be Your Own Leader A recent North American defense ministers meeting was originally scheduled to be a trilateral gathering, but Mexico’s Secretary of…
From NAFTA to CETA: Canada-EU Deep Economic Integration
Dana Gabriel Be Your Own Leader Canada and the European Union (EU) have already held five rounds of negotiations towards a Comprehensive Economic and Trade…
Free Market Fraud
Dylan Ratigan Huffington Post At first glance, the December jobs report seems to be a step in the right direction. An unemployment rate of 9.4…