Season 1, Episode 5 Podcasts
Why We Can't Have Nice Things: The 'Chicken Tax' That Makes Pickup Trucks More Expensive
"It's not easy to make one of these rules, but it's a thousand times harder to get rid of one."
Season 1, Episode 5 Podcasts
"It's not easy to make one of these rules, but it's a thousand times harder to get rid of one."
Instead, Donald Trump is proposing a 10-percent automatic tariff on all imports, a trade policy even worse than Biden's.
Season 1, Episode 4 Podcasts
"You need an argument for why this is good for society. That's important, but you also need money."
The "Tariff Man" promises to strike again.
Panic over China's rapid economic growth has fueled all manner of big-government proposals. They're looking even more foolish now.
The answer? Because special interests and government prevent the free market from working the way it should.
Season 1, Episode 3 Free Trade
"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.
Biden is blurring the lines between economic policy and military action.
Season 1, Episode 2 Free Trade
The U.S. tariff code is "quite regressive and somewhat misogynist" because the most powerful lobbyist in Washington is muscle memory.
A new national emergency declaration will allow for the creation of an outbound investment screening system targeting Americans' investments in China.
Season 1, Episode 1 Podcasts
A combination of "absurdly high" federal tariffs and excessive FDA regulations created the conditions for a crisis.
"Government in general does a lot of things that aren't necessary," says Jared Polis.
Season 1 Free Trade
A six-part podcast series on trade policy launching next week
The Commerce Department and the International Trade Commission are considering a petition that would impose tariffs of up to 300 percent on tinplate steel.
China and the U.S. are locked in a mutually destructive economic conflict.
Many politicians offer a simplified view of the world—one in which government interventions are all benefits and no costs. That couldn't be further from the truth.
Economists Gene Epstein and David Friedman debated how best to persuade people to become libertarians at the Porcupine Freedom Festival.
Pioneers of Capitalism chronicles centuries of bottom-up economic evolution in the Netherlands.
If the FTC wants to know why there's such a notable lack of competition within America's baby formula market, it ought to ask other parts of the federal bureaucracy.
Hawley might call them "tariffs on China," but that's obvious nonsense: Tariffs are paid by Americans.
The ideology champions the same tired policies that big government types predictably propose whenever they see something they don't like.
The hard lesson that free markets are better than state control may have to be relearned.
Are the plausible alternatives to continental governance any better?
The House passed a resolution that will reimpose tariffs on solar panels from China, while the EPA sits on applications for carbon capture technology that may soon be mandatory.
An argument that the wasteful law violates the Constitution's Port Preference Clause.
Overall human freedom peaked in 2007, according to the Cato Institute, and governments' COVID response merely exacerbated the trend toward a radically less-free planet.
Industrial policy is never as simple as it seems.
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It would result in shortages, decreases in productivity, and higher production costs affecting millions of American workers and nearly every consumer.
American companies and consumers "bore nearly the full cost of these tariffs because import prices increased at the same rate as the tariffs."
Big corporations and entire industries constantly use their connections in Congress to get favors, no matter which party is in power.
When politicians manipulate industry, the public pays the price.
The legislation, which forbids shipping anything between American ports in ships that are not U.S. built and crewed, is just another a special deal that one industry has scammed out of Congress.
If Congress wants to spend taxpayer money on child care services, it should pass a bill authorizing that.
Politicians' go-to fixes like child tax credits and federal paid leave are known for creating disincentives to work without much impact on fertility.
Global hunger declined for decades before pandemic policies and Russia’s invasion broke the world.
It's a fundamental contradiction that's affected the Biden administration's economic policy for the past two years.
These days, he may run for president. His politics have changed.
Joe Biden could take advantage of the expanded executive authority over trade that Donald Trump helped create.
Shipping industry insiders floated a recommendation to charge critics of the Jones Act with treason, according to documents obtained through a Freedom of Information Act request.
The warning signs are flashing "don't be like China."
We’d all be better off if politicians spared us their experiments in subsidies, wages, and trade.
After two terms in the Senate as a champion for free markets and limited government, Pennsylvania's Republican senator is heading into retirement.
The maritime industry inserted some protectionism into the National Defense Authorization Act.