My Mercatus Center colleague Dan Griswold corrects yet more economic ignorance from the Trump gang. A slice:
Our incoming president has been a harsh critic of the North American Free Trade Agreement, but the irony of his targeting U.S. automakers is that, by virtually every meaningful measure, they are thriving in the zero-tariff North American market created by NAFTA.
Jeffrey Tucker rightly salutes the warehouse.
Gad Saad chats, for about an hour, with my colleague Dan Klein.
Arnold Kling reviews Joel Mokyr’s latest volume, Culture of Growth.
Former Reagan administration deputy U.S. trade representative and longtime trade-remedies attorney, Robert Lighthizer, is President-elect Trump’s choice for United States Trade Representative. Considered in conjunction with the appointments of Peter Navarro to head the newly-created National Trade Council at the White House (my [Ikenson’s] take) and Wilbur Ross at the Commerce Department (my [Ikenson’s] take), Lighthizer’s selection seems to confirm fears that U.S. trade policy is descending into darkness.
