Home | Economics | Free Trade

Free Trade

Licensing Professions is a Must ... Right?

Michael Hurd | 13 October 2011
In a free society, it’s valid to expect the government to prosecute fraud and outright deception, but it’s not valid for the government to restrain trade, which is exactly what most licensing laws do.

Why State Licensed Unions are Legalized Thugs

Michael Hurd | 30 December 2010
Increasingly, unions are nothing more than legalized thuggery. What other group would propose forcing members to join, and force members to reveal which leaders they select in "secret" balloting, as currently proposed in legislation before Congress?

The Only "Fair" Trade is Free Trade

Michael Hurd | 8 December 2010
The only "fair" trade is free trade. Freedom of trade is the only fair arrangement mankind has ever devised, or ever will devise.

Free Trade versus Protectionism

Walter Williams | 26 November 2008
You never see consumers descending on Washington complaining about cheap prices for foreign products; it's always domestic producers who do the complaining.

Anti-Free Trade Paradise

Walter Williams | 16 April 2008
Presidential candidates Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama, pandering to anti-trade activists, suggest that should they become president, they will restrict trade agreements. Before you buy into their promised paradise, there are a few trade questions you might consider.

Subsidized "Free Trade" Is Not Free Trade

Ralph Reiland | 28 January 2007
For a small-scale corn farmer driven out of business in Mexico by the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), the fancy economic theories about the benefits of "free trade" might not seem too believable.

Foreign Trade Angst

Walter Williams | 18 October 2006
Do foreigners keep all those dollars they earned under a mattress? They are not that stupid. They use those dollars to import capital goods such as U.S. stocks, bonds and U.S. Treasury notes.

Congress Should Repeal the Byrd Amendment.

Edwin Feulner | 14 June 2005
Ironically, while the law was supposedly designed to protect domestic interests, American consumers are the real losers in all this. We pay twice for the Byrd Amendment: Once when government lawyers prosecute dumping cases and again when the prices we pay for goods go up.

To Outsource or to Stagnate?

Onkar Ghate | 26 July 2004
The opponents of "outsourcing" resent the growth a free society demands.

Outsourcing: Threat or Menace?

Don Luskin | 9 May 2004
But it's only under a policy of do-nothing economic freedom that we can maximize our chances to find the thing we're good at doing instead of making cheese, steel, or even wine.
1 2 3 4 next total: 33 | displaying: 1 - 10