by Dan Mitchell | May 15, 2024 | Blogs, Trade
Today’s column is about international trade, but I’m not going to regurgitate my usual arguments about the benefits of free trade or get wonky about creative destruction. Instead, I’m going to make a point about the glib, hypocritical,...
by Dan Mitchell | Apr 17, 2024 | Blogs, Economics, Trade
Five years ago, I shared this video explaining why trade deficits generally don’t matter. The most important thing to understand is that a trade deficit is the same thing as a financial account surplus (formerly known as a capital surplus), which is easy to...
by Dan Mitchell | Feb 21, 2024 | Blogs
Almost exactly six years ago, I shared a column with this video of a member of the European Parliament explaining the principle of mutual recognition. But that column was mostly about the benefits of jurisdictional competition and I only mentioned mutual recognition...
by Dan Mitchell | Dec 28, 2023 | Blogs, Free Market, Trade
As I wrote just two days ago, the establishment media often alternates between bias and inaccuracy. An example from earlier this year is when the press referred to Javier Milei, a presidential candidate in Argentina, as a “Mini-Trump.” That was an...
by Dan Mitchell | Dec 19, 2023 | Blogs, Trade
I like to think that my four-part video series on trade (here, here, here, and here) has a lot of useful facts and analysis. But I overlooked a very persuasive argument. Here are the world’s more protectionist and most pro-trade jurisdictions, according...
