How Leftist 'Saviors' Ruined Latin America
The Atlas Network's Antonella Marty on the bad ideas that have undermined wealth and stability in the region
The Atlas Network's Antonella Marty on the bad ideas that have undermined wealth and stability in the region
Supply chains are struggling, but they're not as fragile as you think.
Detroit leaders throw around words like "fairness" and "equity" while shielding big restaurants from smaller competition.
If the power to his house went out during a storm, one assumes Hawley would declare electricity to be a mistake and demand that homes be lit with candles.
How obsolete, cronyist regulations force domestic cruise ships into foreign stops
What good is protectionism that isn't protecting anything?
A hundred-year-old protectionist law that makes traffic worse and goods more expensive.
President Biden signed a bill Monday that temporarily waives the regulation. Why not just repeal the law?
The protectionist Jones Act makes it harder to move fuel around the country.
These rules drive up costs and distort markets while letting politicians claim credit for defending domestic industries from foreign competition.
After losing at the Supreme Court in 2019, state lawmakers are now targeting fulfillment houses in an attempt to stop consumers from buying what they want.
Big outlets get subsidies. The government still gets to pick winners and losers.
Reimplementing 10 percent tariffs on aluminum imported from the United Arab Emirates for vacuous national security reasons only entrenches executive authority over trade.
Pandering to maritime unions means higher costs and harsher lives for coastal minority populations.
Like the Hays Code and Waldorf Statement before it, new diversity requirements are Tinseltown's way of asserting cultural dominance through self-policing.
The Trump years were more than infuriating on trade matters—they were destructive.
Virginia Postrel's new book explores economics, politics, and technology through textiles.
When it comes to limiting the size and scope of government and protecting individual liberties, America's 45th president has been actively malign.
The net result of turning away foreign labor is greater unemployment—and lower wages—for native-born workers.
Protectionism is now infecting the GOP to a degree that may be difficult to eradicate when the Trump era ends.
A member of the five-month-old company's board has been touting bogus stats about America's supposed dependency on Chinese-made drugs.
Dairy industry-endorsed regulations required skim milk to be labeled as “imitation” if it hadn’t been enriched with added vitamins.
The COVID-19 crisis has resuscitated some seriously bad ideas.
Government wants to force social media platforms to accept a “duty of care” to protect users from whatever they deem harmful.
The Tariff Man doubles down on bad economics.
It's ridiculous to cut off Alaskans from the resources found in their own backyards.
A new study shows that tariffs and other anti-trade policies actually benefit executives far more than the average worker.
The Jones Act isn't saving American shipbuilders, but it's driving up prices for Americans.
Dump intrusive trade policies to give a real boost to consumers and entrepreneurs.
Warren needs to take a lesson from Leonard Read's "I, Pencil."
Protectionism fails, even for those who were supposed to benefit.
The Commerce Department is a major dispenser of corporate welfare.
Castle Danger Brewing is the latest of the state's craft breweries to be victimized by a law that forbids all but the smallest operations from selling growlers on location.
State lawmakers granted special marketing privileges to the animal meat industry
Restaurateurs get protection from small competitors. It’s the citizens who lose out on delicious food choices.
The federal law protecting the shipping industry from competition strikes again.
Once a protectionist, always a protectionist.
Protectionist policies produce negative results.
Legal scholar John McGinnis argues the answer is "yes." But the issue is a far closer one than he suggests.
The Utah senator wants a world where "Alaskans, Hawaiians, and Puerto Ricans aren't forced to pay higher prices for imported goods."
Gov. Cuomo throws his support behind a ban on home cultivation, possibly on behalf of already entrenched pot groups.
Big publishers want new sources of revenue. But trying to force license fees for linking will backfire.
Tennessee alcohol merchants are asking the Supreme Court to uphold an absurd residency requirement that shields them from competition.
In a case SCOTUS will hear next month, victims of Tennessee's protectionism argue that it flouts the 14th Amendment as well as the Commerce Clause.
Trump is wrong about tariffs and so was Alex Hamilton.
Alcoa says it needs protection from protectionism. That should be a lesson for the administration.
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