by Dan Mitchell | Mar 12, 2025 | Blogs, Trade
Mark Perry of the American Enterprise Institute is famous for his Venn Diagrams that highlight intellectual incoherence and dishonesty. Taxation and incentives The War on Drugs The Minimum wage The Food and Drug Administration Consenting adults Trade Taxation and...
by Dan Mitchell | Mar 11, 2025 | Blogs, Trade
I shared a “Trade 101 for Trumpies” presentation last month in hopes of educating people about the foolishness of protectionism. Perhaps it should have been a remedial class because the president has just announced another increase in taxes on steel and aluminum...
by Dan Mitchell | Mar 5, 2025 | Blogs, Trade
Trump didn’t learn from the failure of protectionism during the Great Depression. And he didn’t learn from the failure of protectionism during his first term in office, so he’s now launched a new trade war by imposing higher taxes on cross-border commerce. Trump will...
by CF&P | Feb 25, 2025 | Blogs, Economics, Trade
Protectionism is illogical. It is based on the notion that it is good to have higher prices and inefficient allocation of resources. Which is why trade barriers inevitably lead to lower growth and fewer jobs. All based on an utterly irrelevant...
by Dan Mitchell | Feb 24, 2025 | CF&P Foundation Prosperitas Studies, Publications
[PDF Version] How the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission Mangled De Minimis Analysis By Daniel J. Mitchell Executive Summary Government agencies and departments are required to send thousands of reports to Congress each year, many of which are a...
