Trump's NAFTA Demands Could Crash the U.S. Auto Industry
The administration pushes harsh protectionist measures at the Montreal NAFTA talks.
The administration pushes harsh protectionist measures at the Montreal NAFTA talks.
The Jones Act drives up consumer prices by protecting U.S. companies from competition. Guess who insists it must be kept intact?
The escalating tit-for-tat over trade policy risks an all-out trade war.
A backwards, protectionist law mandating an obsolete job has been only slightly relaxed.
A judge suspends oppressive city regulations as too vague, but the fight's probably not over.
An old federal law demolishes the development of some domestic tourism markets.
Protectionism at play? Politicians say food trucks are "unfair competition" for restaurants.
Without American participation, everyone could end up worse off-particularly Americans.
Protectionist measures hurt American workers and consumers.
Hurricane Irma sheds light on the hidden costs of yet another protectionist measure.
The idea is sadly gaining steam.
Is it just more bluster from the White House? Let's hope so.
DHS ends waiver of protectionist shipping law that drives up costs.
Don't ruin it with protectionist trade policies.
Reason's Nick Gillespie, Katherine Mangu-Ward, and Matt Welch on the Las Vegas shooting, Trump's Twitter rage at Puerto Rico, and the Jones Act.
Anti-dumping tariffs don't lead to more fairness, they just lead to more tariffs.
A bankrupt Chinese-owned taxpayer-subsidized company that's asking for protection against Chinese imports.
Congress needs to vote to stop protecting shipping cartel from market competition.
If you can't change a single lousy law in the face of humanitarian crisis, how are you going to take on the tax code's thousands of special-interest blocs?
The president is doing everything he can do to alienate libertarians who believe in shrinking the size, scope, and spending of government.
John Stossel got an eyeglass prescription over the internet. "Bottleneckers" want that banned.
The EU can be quite protectionist, particularly vis a vis its eastern members.
American protectionism has repeatedly failed as an economic strategy.
How flag-waving nationalism provides cover for a destructive economic policy.
Truck operator: "I feel like this city is about nepotism, cronyism and favoritism."
A South Carolina Supreme Court decision rejects rules based on economic protectionism.
Steel imports are no more a threat to U.S. national security than imported sugar or lumber or tulips.
In a political sense, the issue is much like fighting climate change.
The Mississippi catfish cartel vs. the Chesapeake invader-eaters
Taxing automation would slow down progress and ultimately make most of us poorer than we would otherwise be.
Pietra Rivoli, author of The Travels of a T-Shirt in the Global Economy, talks to Reason about the politics of trade.
Michigan lawmakers and the Twenty-First Amendment stink.
Trump's CPAC speech married the worst tendencies of Republicans and Democrats to tell us all where we can live and what we can buy.
Spending $500,000 per year to save a $50,000 per year factory job might make sense politically, but only if the true cost of saving those jobs is hidden.
Virginia and other states force receipts to equal a high percentage of food sales. That's foolish.
Lawmakers try to further restrict who can use the term 'milk.'
'Montreal has one of the highest restaurant per-capita ratios in North America and the amount of places to eat is worrying local politicians.'
But liberals lambast Trump and love Bernie. Go figure.
Nick Gillespie, Katherine Mangu-Ward, and Matt Welch discuss how Democrats will (or won't) cope, why Republicans are turning against free trade, and whether millennials will go libertarian in 2017.
What could President Trump really do to punish American companies for moving abroad? Well, Congress might try to replace global corporate taxation with a 20% VAT-style levy on everything sold inside the U.S.
The 1930 Smoot-Hawley Act was a policy disaster never to be repeated, says Dan Griswold of the Mercatus Center. Until now.
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