Mercantilism

Obama's Trans-Pacific Partnership Disaster

Ian Fletcher | Posted 01.21.2012

Read More: Free Trade, Mercantilism, Obama, Tpp, Trans-Pacific Partnership, Trade Agreements, China, Video, Politics News

After the failed promises of NAFTA, a job-destroying trade deficit that has burgeoned despite a long series of free-trade agreements, and ever-more-aggressive foreign mercantilism, we're plowing ahead with even more of these agreements.

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Living in a Made in China Tent

Peter Navarro and Greg Autry | Posted 01.12.2012

Read More: Jobs, Mercantilism, Unemployment, China, Made in China, Occupy Wall Street, Politics News

What bothered me the most was the failure of most of the protesters and indeed most Americans to clearly understand the fundamental economic origins of the discontent most Americans now feel.

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China's Communist Party: Not Losing Control

Tom Doctoroff | Posted 12.03.2011

Read More: Cultural Revolution, Weibo, Bo Xilai, Eminent Domain, Chinese Politics, Mao Zesong, Mercantilism, Singapore, Arab Spring, Chinese Culture, Ministry of State Security, Chinese Middle Class, Prosperity Covenant, Deng Xiaoping, Micro-Blogs, Democracy in China, Chinese Pragmatism, World News

The future of China's political system will not be made in America or Europe.

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In Praise of Mercantilism (or Why Economic History Isn't Boring)

Ian Fletcher | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Adam Smith, Korea, England, Free Trade, Mercantilism, Protectionism, Economic History, Business News

Mercantilism has somewhat different application in developed, rather than developing, nations, but its fundamentals still hold good. We at least need to defend against mercantilist aggression against us, something we are not doing.

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Bipartisan Cluelessness in Republican Response to Obama State of the Union

Ian Fletcher | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Free Trade, Obama, Mercantilism, Michele Bachmann, Protectionism, State of the Union, Politics News

There have been times in American history when there were good arguments for picking one partisan side or the other, but having heard Rep. Paul Ryan's response to Obama's State of the Union address, I don't know who's worse.

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Stop the Korea Free Trade Agreement!

Ian Fletcher | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Free Trade Agreements, Free Trade, Mercantilism, Protectionism, South Korea, Politics News

You would think America had learned its lesson from NAFTA, which the Labor Department has estimated cost us 525,000 jobs. But now it seems President Obama wants to offshore 159,000 more.

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The Libertarian Delusion That "Real" Free Trade Would Work

Ian Fletcher | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Free Trade, Mercantilism, Protectionism, Economy, China, Ian Fletcher, Communism, Antiamericanism, Nafta, Libertarianism, Korea, Politics News

It's time for libertarians to stop taking ideological refuge in an ideal world we don't live in. The problems of free trade in the real world cast doubt on their ideology.

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When You Close the Factory We Can't Make a Living

Dave Johnson | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Manufacturing, Mercantilism, China, Trade, US China Relations, Sotu, Free Trade, Steven Pearlstein, China Economy, Business News

Next week, the President delivers his State of the Union speech. This is an opportunity to announce that we are going to do unto China as China is doing unto us. Enough!

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Ending Innovation Mercantilism

Robert D. Atkinson, Ph.D. | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Mercantilism, Innovation, Technology, Trade, Technology News

The following is a guest post written by Stephen Ezell, Senior Analyst, Information Technology and Innovation Foundation As it's becoming clearer eve...

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Bigger National Crisis: Bedbugs or Unemployment?

Surya Yalamanchili | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Currency, Free Trade, Mercantilism, Bedbugs, China Economy, Economy, China, Jean Schmidt, Politics News

You can't accuse Congresswoman Jean Schmidt of not standing up to bedbugs. She's ready to go to war against them. Standing up for American jobs? Apparently, not so much.

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Currency Just Tip of China Iceberg

Surya Yalamanchili | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Debt, Currency Manipulation, US China Relations, Mercantilism, Trade Deficit, Imports, Unemployment, Exports, Free Trade, Manufacturing, China Currency, China Economy, China, Business News

Today, China is both our largest supplier and creditor. We buy goods that we used to make from them with money borrowed from them.

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Debating Free Trade vs. Protectionism, Round One Replies

Ian Fletcher | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Free Trade, Wazi Ligomeka, Protectionism, Ed Tower, Ian Fletcher, Taxes, Mercantilism, Minimum Wage, Unemployment, Money, Economy, Great Britain, Great Depression, Business News

Using a tariff to fix the economy is like performing a lobotomy with a spade--not the right tool.

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