Federal 'Buy American' Rules Cost Over $100,000 Per Job Created
Eliminate the domestic content requirements of the Buy American Act, don't expand them.
Eliminate the domestic content requirements of the Buy American Act, don't expand them.
Trump's protectionist running mate comes out against “cheap, knockoff toasters” and common sense.
Commerce Secretary Raimondo insists the rule "is a strictly national security action."
Cuban's Cost Plus Drugs project brings a bit of free market flair to the health care industry, but the lack of meaningful price signals is only part of the problem.
A new season brings six new stories about how the government is making Americans poorer and sicker.
Both campaigns represent variations on a theme of big, fiscally irresponsible, hyper-interventionist government.
A new poll challenges the protectionist narrative currently dominating both sides of the political aisle.
A new Cato Institute/YouGov survey finds contradictory attitudes on trade policy, and widespread ignorance. The survey also suggests a potentially promising political strategy for free trade advocates.
The New Right talks a big populist game, but their policies hurt the people they're supposed to help.
Growth of regulation slowed under former President Trump, but it still increased.
The Ohio Senator is one of the Party's leading advocates of protectionism, economic planning, and immigration restrictions.
"I don’t care to replace a left-wing nanny state with a right-wing nanny state," the onetime presidential hopeful said this week.
Yes, cheap imports hurt some American companies. But protectionist trade policy harms many more Americans than it helps.
Both ideologies are bad. But one is a much greater danger than the other.
Once booming, the industry now faces closures and stifling market access due to outdated laws and burdensome middlemen.
It isn't about stopping crime—it's about protecting a favored constituency's jobs.
Lab-grown meat bans don't protect consumers, but they do protect ranchers and farmers from competition.
Plus, an AI-generated recipe for garlic lovers' shrimp scampi
Florida’s protectionist ban on the nascent industry sacrifices conservative principles in the name of a culture war that politicizes everything.
Uncovering Big Beer’s crafty campaign to limit consumer access to canned cocktails.
Plus: A listener asks the editors to steel man the case for the Jones Act, an antiquated law that regulates maritime commerce in U.S. waters.
Plus: A listener asks if Trump or Biden have done anything to secure the blessings of liberty.
The best time to repeal the Foreign Dredge Act was before the Francis Scott Key Bridge collapsed. The next best time to repeal it is right now.
Chinese camera drones are the most popular worldwide. American drone manufacturers argue that's a national security threat.
Economic nationalists are claiming the deal endangers "national security" to convince Americans that a good deal for investors, employees, and the U.S. economy will somehow make America less secure. That's nonsense.
Support for industrial policy and protectionism are supposed to help the working class. Instead, these ideas elevate the already privileged.
Decades of protectionism have led to the film industry’s decline, but a free market can make it bloom.
It's part of the government's expensive public-private partnership meant to address concerns over a reliance on foreign countries, like China, for semiconductors.
The U.S. International Trade Commission voted unanimously to reject a nakedly protectionist proposal that would have made canned goods more expensive.
Plus: A listener asks if it should become the norm for all news outlets to require journalists to disclose their voting records.
The new libertarian president believes in free markets and the rule of law. When people have those things, prosperity happens.
That's bad news for Americans.
Tariffs of 25 percent introduced under Donald Trump have been allowed to remain in place, and Biden may tack on even more to shield American firms from competition.
There's no good reason for the government to block Americans' access to cheaper tin cans.
Another round of federal intervention to prevent its sale makes no sense.
While the partnership between Hyundai and Amazon is a good first step, states should get rid of laws that mandate franchise dealerships.
When the Biden administration temporarily suspended its own protectionist policies, Senate Republicans voted to reinstate them.
The DAIRY PRIDE Act says it wants to protect consumers. In reality, it's trying to protect dairy farmers from economic competition.
A new report from the GAO highlights how America's system of sugar subsidies and tariffs costs consumers about $3.5 billion every year.
Removing high tariffs from foreign imports of baby formula would ease the supply shock of possible factory closures.
Deena Ghazarian, CEO of consumer electronic company Austere, says the federal government's tariff exclusion process was "arcane, nontransparent, and highly uncertain."
Rather than posing a national security threat, the growth of China's E.V. industry is an opportunity for global innovation.
"There's nobody that says, wait, is this good for America? Is this good for the American consumer?"
X-Dumpsters owner Steven Hedrick rents roll-away dumpsters to people, but now his city forces residents to contract with the county.
The answer? Because special interests and government prevent the free market from working the way it should.
"It's just a very classic case of everything wrong with Washington."
The host of Why We Can't Have Nice Things explains how indefensible tariffs cause baby formula shortages, screw Hawaii residents, and increase traffic in the Northeast.
The U.S. tariff code is "quite regressive and somewhat misogynist" because the most powerful lobbyist in Washington is muscle memory.