Because of the century-old Jones Act, U.S. citizens in Puerto Rico must use overpriced, outdated ships to import American LNG—while the Dominican Republic enjoys cheaper energy from the same source.
The Jones Act keeps energy-hungry Alaskans from using their own natural gas.
The law is wasteful and protectionist. Now, a new lawsuit argues that it is unconstitutional too.
For decades, the Jones Act has increased costs and hurt grid reliability in Puerto Rico.
The Jones Act makes the North Slope’s resources inaccessible to the state’s energy-starved residents.
Plus: A listener asks the editors to steel man the case for the Jones Act, an antiquated law that regulates maritime commerce in U.S. waters.
The best time to repeal the Foreign Dredge Act was before the Francis Scott Key Bridge collapsed. The next best time to repeal it is right now.
Yup, blame the Jones Act. Again.
Plus: Libertarian lessons in the wake of the Maui wildfires
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."
An argument that the wasteful law violates the Constitution's Port Preference Clause.
The Democratic president is supercharging former president Trump's failed approach to domestic manufacturing.
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.
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 maritime industry inserted some protectionism into the National Defense Authorization Act.
That's in addition to advocating for opponents of the law to be charged with treason.
There’s nothing patriotic about a law lining the pockets of cargo companies at the expense of consumers.
While campaigning for the midterm election, the president is promoting a disastrous and expensive form of economic protectionism.
Plus: The editors unpack a philosophical question from a listener concerning foreign policy.
It’s only one vessel, but the U.S. domestic shipping cartel, protected by the awful Jones Act, is screaming about it.
The island is begging the Biden administration to allow foreign ships to bring fuel to help restore power. But entrenched maritime interests balk at competition.
After a Category 1 hurricane made landfall Sunday, a million Puerto Rican households are still without power.
Biden's three-point plan to tackle inflation is really a one-point plan: Let the Federal Reserve handle this mess.
Protectionist policies stymie trade and make Americans poorer.
Few politicians are willing to admit deficit spending is the larger cause.
Biden says reducing prices is his "top priority" but his economic agenda suggests the opposite.
Guess whose fault it is that it’s so expensive to ship goods to America? (Spoiler: The U.S. government's.)
For Biden, "build back better’" apparently means eyes on everything in the economy.
Plus: Psychedelic entrepreneurs, American seafood stuck in Canada, and more...
We don't have a gridlock problem. We have a spending problem.
A hundred-year-old protectionist law that makes traffic worse and goods more expensive.
Pandering to maritime unions means higher costs and harsher lives for coastal minority populations.
Biden says he'll oppose attempts to repeal the Jones Act and will push for tighter "Buy American" policies that hike the price of infrastructure projects.
It's ridiculous to cut off Alaskans from the resources found in their own backyards.
The Jones Act isn't saving American shipbuilders, but it's driving up prices for Americans.
The federal law protecting the shipping industry from competition strikes again.
The Utah senator wants a world where "Alaskans, Hawaiians, and Puerto Ricans aren't forced to pay higher prices for imported goods."
The Jones Act drives up consumer prices by protecting U.S. companies from competition. Guess who insists it must be kept intact?
The government set the stage for a post-hurricane catastrophe.
DHS ends waiver of protectionist shipping law that drives up costs.
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.
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