American economic nationalism has risen in recent years, both fueling and fueled by President Donald Trump's election. With it has risen the view, perpetuated by Trump and many others, that ...

The evidence points to a failing strategy. Protectionism has not delivered the promised benefits. Decoupling has hurt ...

Exactly 100 years after the nation ratified the Eighteenth Amendment and began Prohibition, on Wednesday, the U.S. Supreme Court considered a case that could set a major precedent for how states can ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) — Dallas Federal Reserve President Richard Fisher warned on Monday against “Buy America” provisions in a proposed fiscal stimulus law and said it could lead to devastating trade ...

Like Horatius at the bridge, or the boy who stood on the burning deck whence all but he had fled, or the Dutch boy who saved the city by putting his finger in the dike – pick your analogous heroism – ...

General consensus doesn’t get much more general than U.S. and European economists’ nearly universal support for unrestricted trade and opposition to most or all forms of economic protectionism. More ...

President Donald Trump’s announcement of new tariffs on steel and aluminum has lots of people talking about “protectionism,” which is a trade policy where countries “protect” their domestic industries ...

Openness and connection are central to pro-growth Up Wing economics (as outlined in this newsletter and my book The Conservative Futurist). This means using public policy to help (or at least not ...

In light of market turmoil and slowing-down economic growth in many parts of the world, popular pressure for governments to intervene in order to fix the worsening economic situation has been on the ...

BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) - Global economic growth is facing the risk of inward-looking policies and protectionism which much be avoided, European Economics Commissioner Pierre Moscovici said on Monday ...

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