by Dan Mitchell | Jun 26, 2020 | Blogs, Economics, Trade
In early 2019, I released this video summarizing some of the evidence for free trade. The bad news is that I must not be very persuasive. Trump continued with protectionist policy. The good news is that we now have more evidence against that form of government...
by Dan Mitchell | May 15, 2020 | Blogs, Economics, Trade
Last year, I released this video to help explain why the World Trade Organization has been a good deal for the United States. My argument was – and still is – very straightforward, and it’s based on two simple propositions. Free trade is good because societies are...
by Dan Mitchell | Apr 22, 2020 | Blogs, Economics, Trade
One year ago, I shared this video to explain why a “trade deficit” doesn’t matter, in large part because it is simply a result of foreigners wanting to invest in America’s economy with some of the dollars they earn. We also have a trade deficit, I pointed out, because...
by Dan Mitchell | Apr 20, 2020 | Blogs, Economics, Trade
Nine days ago, I wrote about Dana Milbank scoring an “own goal” because he claimed we needed bigger government to deal with coronavirus, yet all the nations he cited for their effective responses actually have a much smaller fiscal burden than the United States....
by Dan Mitchell | Mar 3, 2020 | Blogs, Trade
Notwithstanding dalliances in other fields, I’m a policy wonk. But I will pontificate (often incorrectly) on politics when asked, which is what happened in this interview about the electoral impact of the coronavirus. My basic point is that Trump is much better than...
