Alexander Hamilton, the Other Tariff Man Who Created a Mess
One of the many unsettling features of Donald Trump is his deep-seated antipathy to the time-honored doctrine of free trade. Even as early as 2016,...
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Canada Lobbies Trump Country In Fight To Preserve NAFTA
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LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Ted Goodman Canada is lobbying state governments and business leaders in America’s rust belt in a feverish effort to...
Trump Decided To Renegotiate NAFTA ‘Out Of Respect’ To Mexico And Canada
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LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Thomas Phippen President Donald Trump promised to renegotiate the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) after calls from the...
Republican Senators Call On Agriculture Secretary To Support Free Trade
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LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Thomas Phippen Republicans in the Senate are calling on newly-confirmed agriculture secretary Sonny Perdue to support agriculture trade in...
Sorry, Anti-TPP Libertarians: In Modern Era, We Need Trade Agreements
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Trade May Have Been the Natural State Once, but Not Today By Brett Linley Trade agreements have turned into a contentious subject among libertarians. While...
Trump’s 7-Point Plan To Drive America Into Recession
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How “the Donald” Plans to Defy Economic Law GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump recently revealed his Seven-Point Plan regarding international trade. Doubling down on his...
Keystone XL Company Sues Obama and the US for $15 Billion Under NAFTA
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The company behind the Keystone XL pipeline filed a $15 billion lawsuit Friday against the Obama administration under the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)....
Free Trade Does Not Destroy American Jobs
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“I was on a picket line in the early 1990s against NAFTA, because you didn’t need a Ph.D. in economics to understand that American workers...