February 5, 2020 – Matheus Fialho Vieira …… Sanctions have a long history of failure. The US government’s recent sanctions on Iran will likely be no different, but they will certainly be harmful to the Iranian people.
January 13, 2020 – James Devereaux …… Unilateral trade is no guarantee of peace, but the evidence suggests it beats the alternative.
December 16, 2019 – Ryan McMaken …… Americans ought to begin thinking of trade between the US and the UK as something comparable to trade between California and Idaho.
October 3, 2019 – Per Bylund …… What exchanges take place, and which do not, is affected by how markets are regulated. Black markets and regulated markets have different outcomes than free markets.
July 24, 2019 – Jacob Hornberger …… In every trade, a person is giving up something he values less for something he values more. Every time a shopper buys any item from another person, he has improved his standard of living, and so has the seller.
July 16, 2019 – Gary Galles …… Car companies are building in Mexico rather than the United States, largely because it has freer trade than the United States does with the rest of the world.
May 28, 2019 – Barry Brownstein …… The tide of war will stay offshore when we add love to economic interdependence.
February 20, 2019 – Robert Higgs …… There is a principle in economics that says, other things being equal, one cannot improve people’s economic well-being by adding constraints to their choices.
February 4, 2019 – Robert Higgs …… Although protectionism has had a multitude of promoters through the ages, from the man in the street to the occupant of the White House, it has always been a bogus doctrine, making claims that cannot be upheld by solid economic theory or sound economic history.
November 8, 2018 – T. Norman Van Cott …… If modern claims about the harm of free trade are true, then Lincoln must have been helping the Confederacy with his military blockade.