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CAFTA: Trade Diversion

…defied President Bush and House Republican leaders by voting against the Central American Free Trade Agreement, or Cafta. But the House speaker, J. Dennis Hastert, told him they needed his…

Frank Gaffney on Global Taxation

…to lie at the heart of free lunch supply-side dogma). I hope Mr. Gaffney is not proposing that the U.S. free ride GWOT the way we have ignored Kyoto. Rather…

David Frum on Reducing Poverty in Africa

Frum argues that Africa does not need financial assistance but might benefit from free trade within the Western Hemisphere: African aid relief is the same. Jeffrey Sachs may imagine that…

In Defense of the Apparel Quota

…Customs and Border Protection (aggregated on a category basis), allowing decision makers to more quickly analyze the impact of imports on the U.S. market. “This action demonstrates the commitment of…

Mankiw on the Baker-DeLong-Krugman Paper

…of this paper agree with me about this. To see if I am right, I would like them to answer the following question: Suppose that next week, the stock market

Privatization: Becker v. Snow & A Dead Parrot

…there is this free lunch benefit, households might consume more. Becker and Barro, however, argue there is no such free lunch benefit. Alas, Becker does spend a lot of time…

Bhagwati on Kerry’s trade positions

While fellow free trader Daniel Drezner says he’s leaning towards Kerry (and has zero probability of voting for Alan Keyes), his latest blog notes a couple of places where Jadesh…

…important issues and since he is free to write passages that are critical of the free-lunch version of supply-side or voodoo economics, let’s hope he does so when his book…