Showing posts with label trade. Show all posts
Showing posts with label trade. Show all posts
Friday, April 18, 2025

TGIF: Menger on Trade

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Even when a line on a map separates two individuals, trade is still trade—that is, mutually beneficial cooperation. Whether the line separat...
Friday, October 25, 2024

TGIF: Happy Halloween, Traders!

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It's the Halloween season, the perfect occasion to introduce your young children and grandchildren to the wonders of the market economy....
Friday, August 09, 2024

TGIF: Khan Controlling Trade

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Lina Khan is a Washington, D.C., rock star. She is not only President Joe Biden's celebrated chief of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC)...
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Wednesday, May 15, 2024

What Is Easy and What Is Not Easy

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It is easy to oppose Israel's massacre in the Gaza Strip. Just watch a few horrifying videos. What is not easy is understanding the pric...
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Friday, June 17, 2022

TGIF: Free Exchange Is Win-Win

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With the possible exception of the political class and its cronies, most of us would be healthier, wealthier, happier, and freer if the publ...
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Friday, January 11, 2019

TGIF: Tucker Carlson Needs Love from His Leaders

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Fox News host and Trump cheerleader Tucker Carlson is a culturally conservative, big-government, nationalist populist. As such, he’s upset ...
Friday, December 29, 2017

Make-Work Is Wasteful

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My final column for the American Institute for Economic Research is "Make-Work Is Wasteful."
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Friday, December 01, 2017

Consumption Is the Purpose of Production

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My column "Consumption Is the Purpose of Production" has been posted at the American Institute for Economic Research.
Thursday, April 13, 2017

Understanding Trade

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My latest article at the American Institute for Economic Research is "Understanding Trade."  Please check it out.
Friday, January 06, 2017

TGIF: NPR Blows a Chance to Teach Sound Economics

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This week, thanks to the Independent Institute  (which lists me as a research fellow), I was interviewed by NPR's Marketplace for a piec...
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Tuesday, January 03, 2017

Prof. Wittgenstein, Please Call Your Office

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President-elect Trump complains that trade with China is "one-sided." Does he speak English or what? One-sided trade is like one-s...
Friday, July 01, 2016

Econ 101

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Big difference -- YUGE -- between delivering bombs and delivering goods.
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Wednesday, March 09, 2016

On Trade, Sanders and Trump Are Peas in a Rotten Pod

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Neither Bernie Sanders, the self-described democratic socialist, nor Donald Trump, the self-described terrific businessman, knows squat abou...
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Tuesday, March 08, 2016

Trump Loses Debate to Dead Economist

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HT: Mark Perry
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Friday, August 21, 2015

TGIF: Trump's Trade Snake Oil

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Donald Trump may think the media stenographers are out to get him, but if they were really doing their job, his head would be spinning. He d...
Tuesday, February 08, 2011

TGIF: Wrong Lesson from Egypt

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Looks like I forgot to post a link to last Friday's TGIF. "Wrong Lesson from Egypt" is here .
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Saturday, June 23, 2007

Free Trade Imperialism

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Here's something left-libertarians need to attend to: Deepak Lal of UCLA is touting a program of unilateral free trade and unabashed U....
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Friday, May 11, 2007

That Mercantilist Commerce Clause

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The Commerce Clause of the U.S. Constitution has been used to justify a wide expansion of government power, from antidiscrimination laws to ...