Op-ed in CityAM on Free Trade
byYesterday I had an op-ed in CityAM dispelling some of the myths surrounding free trade http://www.cityam.com/273538/dont-fall-myths-free-trade-enriches-world Thanks to Guido Fawkes for putting it…
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Launch of the Institute for Free Trade
byI had the pleasure of attending the launch of Daniel Hannan MEP’s new think tank the Institute for Free Trade on Wednesday at the…
The fiscal benefits of free trade
byWestern governments have an overriding problem, and that is they have reached or exceeded the bounds of taxation, at a time when legally mandated…
Trade and Protectionism post globalisation
byProtectionism is on the increase among developed nations The benefits of free-trade have been most evident in developing countries Short-term effects on financial markets…
Trade Deficits Don’t Matter – Unless Caused by Government
byIn 2016, the United States exported goods and services equal to $2.209 trillion, and imported goods and services with a market value of $2.712…
Benn Steil: RMB Globalization, Once “Unstoppable,” Heads Into Reverse
by“The globalisation of the [Chinese RMB] seems remorseless and unstoppable,” the Economist pronounced in April 2014. A year later, a research-grant foundation asked me…
Trump’s Economic Warfare Targets Innocent Bystanders
byAn often forgotten truth is that it is not just military warfare that can cause injury to innocent bystanders, the same inescapably happens in…
Why free trade is officially dead
byG20 Finance ministers meeting in Baden Baden last weekend agreed, on America’s insistence, to drop the long-standing commitment to free trade from the final…
Rules-based, automatically-adjusting trade policy for freer trade
byA major contemporary worry is that threats of tariffs, preservation of subsidies and licensing and standards restrictions for imports and exports will derail any…
Land-use restrictions, agricultural subsidies and free trade
byOne of the greatest barriers to free trade is agricultural subsidies since they are politically venomous to remove due to the perception that their…