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 last forty years have seen a massive and historically unprecedented decline in global poverty.
The 1930 Smoot-Hawley Act was a policy disaster never to be repeated, says Dan Griswold of the Mercatus Center. Until now.
Trade wars and debt increases loom on the horizon.
His poor grasp of policy makes past leaders look brilliant by comparison.
Ex-Rage Against the Machine axman Tom Morello decides to Rock Against the TPP.
What you need to know about the Trans-Pacific Partnership.
Remove the Libertarian and there goes fiscal sanity, federalism, and free speech.
If you're under 50 and worried about the 2016 election, automation, and your future, listen up!
We each have two legitimate ways to acquire any good: produce it ourselves or acquire it through trade. For most goods, trade will be the lower cost method.
The United States ranks 16th in the world on economic freedom index
Yes, the TPP contains some protectionist policies. Daniel Ikenson thinks it's still worth supporting.
Weekend spat reveals much about the state of the contemporary GOP.
In order to appease far-left voters, she's abandoning economic literacy.
While Hillary Clinton tries to tax Wall Street and punish companies that move, Andrew Cuomo uses scores of millions of taxpayer dollars to advertise a failed government program that waives taxes and rewards companies that move
Emphasizing jobs over value, they sacrifice the interests of consumers.
Conservatives recommending nationalism are dangerously wrong.
Renegotiating TPP would reduce its effectiveness.
Sen. Bob Casey's empty gotcha on Donald Trump's business practices betray a lack of thought on trade issues.
Protectionism is popular only with party elites, not regular Americans.
The Texas senator tells Republicans freedom is just another word for blocking immigration, restricting trade, and banning gay marriage.
Brexit is a dangerous blow to openness and free trade.
Anti-porn positions remain while free trade support takes a hit.
The party should say "no" to Trump's anti-NAFTA tirades.
Without the GOP's help, NAFTA would never have passed
The presumptive GOP nominee is selling an economic fantasy.
How the U.K. can escape E.U. regulations and protectionism.
If Donald Trump is the dealmaker he touts himself as, he'll make public peace with Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos. Here's why.
Reality TV star apparently unfazed by mass misery and decaying infrastructure.
How to erase billions from the American economy.
"Every part of my product is made in the USA." What could be wrong with that? Lots of things...
Score one for capitalism and economic liberalization: countries with freer markets handle human trafficking better, say researchers.
While Hillary Clinton starts to call into question whether Sanders understands banking policy.
Tale from the EU breakup? Or the future of a protectionist America?
His socialism remains sadly nationalistic when it comes to trade, the surest way out of real poverty for the world.
Why Mississippi's catfish industry asked the government to regulate it more tightly
American working class is spurning jobs, but somehow that's the fault of trade liberalization
The old rule notionally exposed Americans to criminal penalties for buying and consuming Cuban cigars while abroad.
The duo represents America's worst protectionist spasm since Hoover.
Postmodernism, the ongoing crisis of authority, and the Libertarian Moment.
Forget Pope Francis and other naysayers. The world is getting richer, safer, and freer.
Sanders and Trump are flaming protectionists, which means they peddle perhaps the oldest, most-thoroughly discredited economics doctrine ever spoken.
More economic illiteracy from the Vermont socialist.
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