The results of the U.S. election this month have got me thinking about protectionism. Webster’s Dictionary defines protectionism as: “the theory or practice of shielding a country’s domestic ...

Reprinted with Permission from The Next American Economy: Nation, State, and Markets in an Uncertain World, by Samuel Gregg, published by Encounter Books. @ 2022 by ...

US Delegation, including US Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer (2nd R) and Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross (R) talks with the Chinese Delegation including Vice Premier Liu He (2nd L) during ...

TOPSHOT - An employee operates on a forging with protective gear at the Framatome Creusot forge, in Le Creusot, central France on March 3, 2023. - As she visited the Framtome site, the French Minister ...

Our nation faces rising unemployment, staggering debts, shrinking trade, and no sense of when (and if) a real recovery — one that reaches Main Street and working families — will take hold. As the ...

State intervention has made a comeback. States have, in one way or another, always intervened in markets to develop specific industries and push innovation. But there has been a renaissance since the ...

Another day, another market-shaking headline out of the US. This morning, we woke to news that US President Donald Trump had imposed the threatened tariffs on Canada, Mexico and China. And that, as a ...

When Donald Trump imposed sweeping tariffs during his first term as US president, it sparked a trade war with China. As the Trump administration ratchets up its threat to tax imports from its allies ...

Free trade agreements have become the talk of the town, thanks to India announcing two of the biggest such deals with the European Union and the United States. While the finer details of these ...

In recognition of the institutional political biases operating against people of color, the NAACP has issued a travel advisory against Florida, lamenting Governor Ron DeSantis’s “aggressive attempts ...