by Dan Mitchell | May 12, 2023 | Blogs, Trade
Free trade is good and protectionism is bad. Assuming one agrees with those common-sense observations, the Tholos Foundation’s just-released Trade Barriers Index is a great source of data about which countries are pro-trade and...
by Dan Mitchell | Apr 27, 2023 | Blogs, Economics, Europe, Trade
Recent years have been very depressing for supporters of free trade. Trump pushed protectionist policies. Now Biden is pushing protectionist policies. And the European Union is pushing protectionist policies using global warming as an excuse. More...
by Brian Garst | Feb 14, 2023 | Opinion and Commentary
Originally published by RealClearPolicy on February 7, 2023. Economic protectionism is an old, global practice that can take many forms, but almost always results in harm to both consumers and companies alike. One popular tactic in the protectionism playbook is a...
by Dan Mitchell | Dec 16, 2022 | Blogs, Trade
I narrated a video making the case for free trade back in 2019. This new video from Kite & Key builds on that effort. Indeed, it also incorporates many of the lessons that were in my video on the benefits of creative destruction. If you don’t have...
by Dan Mitchell | Dec 14, 2022 | Blogs, Europe, Trade
For the first 50-plus years of my life, free trade was in the ascendancy. Policy makers had learned a big lesson from the Great Depression about how protectionism was economic poison, and various trade agreements after World War II helped...
