by Dan Mitchell | Jun 18, 2018 | Blogs, Free Market
On the issue of trade, Donald Trump is wallowing in the swamp of special interest favoritism instead of defending the interests of taxpayers and consumers. He’s wrong on NAFTA. He’s wrong on dealing with China. He’s wrong on steel and aluminum. And it appears that he...
by Dan Mitchell | Jun 14, 2018 | Blogs, Economics
At the risk of understatement, I’ve been very critical of President Trump’s trade policy. I pointed out that he was just as bad as Bernie Sanders before the election. And I didn’t change my tune once he got to the White House. I’ve written several columns bemoaning...
by Dan Mitchell | Jun 7, 2018 | Blogs, Free Market
The good news is that Donald Trump is not imitating all of Herbert Hoover’s statist policies. The bad news, as I explain in this interview, is that his protectionist mistakes could trigger a repeat of Hoover’s beggar-thy-neighbor protectionism that wreaked havoc in...
by Dan Mitchell | Apr 4, 2018 | Blogs, Economics
I explained last month that the World Trade Organization’s dispute-resolution mechanism is the best way of discouraging China from short-sighted mercantilist and cronyist trade policies. The Trump Administration, though, thinks that the best response to bad Chinese...
by Dan Mitchell | Mar 21, 2018 | Blogs, Free Market
At the risk of stating the obvious, I’m not a fan of international bureaucracies. The International Monetary Fund and the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development are the worst multilateral institutions because of their promotion of bad policy, but I’ve...
