Economists letter on tariffs Most Complete From Sopintar

Once per decade or so it is worth revisiting the famous 1930 economists' letter on Tariffs . (The link, at econjournalwatch.org, has a c...

On tariffs Most Complete From Sopintar

An oped on tariffs, for  Fox news here . That tariffs are bad is rather obvious to readers of this blog, but perhaps marshaling and digestin...

Unraveling Most Complete From Sopintar

Economists delight in unravelings -- behavioral responses that undo bright ideas. A subsidy for skunks produces cats with white stripes. Two...

What's worse than tariffs? Most Complete From Sopintar

Quotas. This morning's Wall Street Journal  "Trump postpones steel tariff decision.." starts optimistic President Donald T...

Trade Haiku Most Complete From Sopintar

George Shultz and Martin Feldstein, in the Washington Post If a country consumes more than it produces, it must import more than it export...

Intellectual property Most Complete From Sopintar

The China trade argument has boiled down to intellectual property and trade. Roughly it has gone like this: "We need to stop China fr...

Trade War Most Complete From Sopintar

I am encouraged by the reported Senate reaction ( Politico ) to the latest salvo in the trade war, the agriculture department's announce...

Trade war off? Most Complete From Sopintar

Events move quickly in the Trump era. Since my last post , President Trump met with European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker and an...