U.S. Steel Manufacturers Eager for Trump to Impose Long-Promised Tariffs
Trump, tariffs and the art of the deal
Trump, tariffs and the art of the deal
Don't ruin it with protectionist trade policies.
Significant regulations "are down an astonishing 58 percent compared to Obama," reports the Competitive Enterprise Institute.
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.
Administration says it will not reduce effects of the anti-free-trade Jones Act.
Crony law benefitting U.S. shipping companies will drive up costs, extend hurricane crisis.
Pulling out of the deal would hurt American workers in factories, farms, and tech centers. It would also drive up costs for consumers.
Protectionism is a losing proposition, especially after a disaster.
The ultimatum game, the double thank-you, and the politics of global commerce
Havana's stunning Gran Hotel Manzana is owned by the Cuban military, making it off-limits to Americans.
Starvation won't turn Cubans into capitalists. Trade and tourism might.
Free trade makes everyone better off.
American protectionism has repeatedly failed as an economic strategy.
Antiglobalism and anticosmopolitanism might flow purely from economic ignorance, but it is hard to believe that's all it is for many people.
The president's inability to unequivocally condemn may be rooted in his general love of illiberal exclusionism
NAFTA just doesn't contain enough "progressive elements," according to the Trudeau administration.
What does it mean when a president is constantly worried that we 'won't have a country' anymore?
Economist Deirdre McCloskey explains the roots of "The Great Enrichment" of the last 200 years.
The White House will force American can makers to "buy American," driving up prices and costing jobs-without doing anything to help American workers.
If we Americans value freedom, we will dismiss the social engineers, open the borders, and liberate ourselves.
Dems are pushing economic protectionism, giving more power to unelected officials, and public shaming of American businesses.
Economists say the deal makes little economic sense.
Let them eat chlorine-washed chicken.
Let them eat chlorine-washed chicken.
The president's Warsaw speech takes a paranoid view of internal threats while downplaying the central role that international exchange has played in the rise of the West.
Paul Ryan is needlessly holding up tax reform by pushing a harmful Border Adjustment Tax.
Both Trump and his mainstream critics are wrong about NATO.
Many of them echo old labor union and Democratic Party complaints about freer trade.
Steel imports are no more a threat to U.S. national security than imported sugar or lumber or tulips.
Trump threatened to withdraw from NAFTA to get Mexico and Canada to the table, but there's no clear goal for negotiations.
Not a nightmarish departure from it.
The heart of the potential for conflicts of interests is not the Trump business empire. It's the presidential power to steer benefits to particular interests.
In a political sense, the issue is much like fighting climate change.
"You better believe it."
Reason editors Brian Doherty, Nick Gillespie, and Katherine Mangu-Ward discuss the week's news.
It feels like mercantilism, hammering imports while promoting exports.
Wanna stick it to the unfriendly skies? Let Richard Branson and other foreigners compete inside the U.S.
If you send money to friends and relatives abroad, the GOP wants more of it to go to Washington.
Libertarian-leaning congressman unpacks the great Ryancare 'bluff,' explains how Paul Ryan is 'more Machiavellian than even John Boehner,' and why he's 'still hopeful' about Donald Trump despite a military budget proposal that's 'the dream of the neocons'
The two sides have until March 2019 to come up with a withdrawal agreement.
Everybody loses in trade wars, especially workers, consumers, and entrepreneurs
Federal trade court rules that lazy coziness will be taxed at a lower rate.
Cato's Johan Norberg on politics, progress, and why he remains optimistic.
Pietra Rivoli, author of The Travels of a T-Shirt in the Global Economy, talks to Reason about the politics of trade.
Why Paul Ryan was clapping at policies he's long opposed, how POTUS could be a strong de-regulator, and why the media cares 100x more about presidential theatrics than the war in Yemen