Protectionism and Free Trade

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Thomas J. DiLorenzo
Thomas DiLorenzo reviews Nancy MacLean's attack-book on libertarianism.
Mises Institute
Will a slow reduction in QE truly help? Or, is this just another wishful act from a Fed that has no clue of how to truly help.
Douglas French
Like condos in Vegas a decade ago, taxi medallions in NYC once looked like a rock-solid investment.
Ryan McMaken
The Trump administration is threatening to cut China off from the US dollar. But this could serve to destroy the dollar's reserve-currency status.
Mises Institute
"Politicians who compromise and seek bipartisanship are the most dangerous among the entire crew in Washington."
Kai Weiss
Germany's newest political party once held a banner for free markets. Unfortunately, it's been lately moving very much in the wrong direction.
Alasdair Macleod
If the West is turning away from free trade, the rest of the world will surely fill the gap — and reap the rewards.
Matthew McCaffrey
Mises warned that war is the outcome of abandoning economic freedom, which is inextricably tied to the spirit of liberalism and its philosophy of peace.
Murray N. Rothbard

Political boundaries of nations may be important for other reasons, but they have no economic meaning whatever. The upshot is that protectionism is not only nonsense, but dangerous nonsense.

Mises Institute
Sometimes, "it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another."