Protectionism

Tweet Kevin Williamson is brilliant. Here he eviscerates progressives, as well as conservatives such as Marco Rubio and Michael Brendan Dougherty, whose advocacy of industrial policy and other forms of protectionism reveal both their economic ignorance and t…

By Marja Novak LJUBLJANA (Reuters) - China and the United States' "phase one" trade agreement is good news for all and will "provide stability in global trade", the Chinese government's top diplomat Wang Yi said during a visit to Slovenia on Saturday. He sa…

Japan and the EU have agreed to increase cooperation on trade, the environment and security. The two sides enacted a large trade deal in February, an agreement they believe counters the "global trends of protectionism."

By Kristina Hooper, Chief Global Market Strategist Weekly Market Compass: As the WTO reaches a crisis point, countries may take trade issues into their own hands. I grew up in the New York City area in the 1980s. My dad always read the tabloids, and so, I s…

LONDON (Reuters) - BlackRock Investment Institute said on Tuesday it was cautiously rotating into cyclical assets, Japanese equities and emerging markets. We are modestly positive on risk assets," said Scott Thiel, chief fixed income strategist for BlackRock…

BlackRock Investment Institute 'modestly positive' on risk assets for 2020

GENEVA (AP) — Global commerce will lose its ultimate umpire Tuesday, leaving countries unable to reach a final resolution of disputes at the World Trade Organization and instead facing what critics call “the law of the jungle.’’ The United States, under a pr…

We now have a manufacturing recession. Paul Krugman correctly explains why: Paul Krugman: Manufacturing Aint Great Again. Why?https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/31/opinion/manufacturing-trump.html?emc=rss&partner=rss: 'Many of Trumps economic promises were o…

Tweet … is from pages 47-48 of Jagdish Bhagwatis 2002 book, Free Trade Today: But the perennial and persistent public-policy fights for free trade, in the end, were with protectionists who cared little about the size of the pie and more about their own slic…

P Chidambaram addressing the press in Jharkhand on Friday. (Photo: ANI)Senior Congress leader P Chidambaram, who recently walked out of Tihar Jail after being lodged there for 106 days, Friday appealed to Jharkhand voters to defeat the BJP in the state Assemb…