Protectionism

Image copyrightAFPImage caption Nicolas Dujovne resigned on Saturday after a week of economic turmoil Argentina's economy minister Nicolas Dujovne has resigned amid a financial crisis exacerbated by the president's defeat in a primary poll. The country's…

Our posts on famed gaming giant Nintendo will likely give you the impression that the company has a very strange distaste for its own fans. Your brain will probably try to convince you that this doesn’t make any sense, since Nintendo fans are what makes Ninte…

Tweet My intrepid Mercatus Center colleague Veronique de Rugy exposes Trump’s incoherence on trade. A slice: You see, one important fact that eludes our president is that the main way for foreign investors to acquire the dollars they invest in the United St…

… and, to the extent that he succeeds in this madness, he will inflict incalculable damage, not just on non-Americans, but on – and perhaps especially on – Americans as well.Trump’s belief that his trade policies will enrich Americans and makes us more secure…

When assumptions about how the world works are shattered, a global downturn is often the result. The world learned in the early 1970s that the era of cheap oil was over, in the early 1980s that countries could default, and a decade ago that American mortgages…

Singapore slashed its full-year economic growth forecast on Tuesday as global conditions were seen worsening and data confirmed the slowest growth rate in a decade amid mounting fears of a recession in the city-state. The government cut its forecast range fo…

Image copyrightEPA Argentine stock markets and its currency have both plunged after Conservative Argentine President Mauricio Macri suffered a shock defeat in primary elections on Sunday. In early trading, Argentina's main Merval stock index fell 32%, while…

… is from page 27 of the 1985 (3rd) edition of the Ralph Raico translation of Ludwig von Misess great 1927 book, Liberalism:The development of a complex network of international economic relations is a product of nineteenth-century liberalism and capitalism. …

NEW YORK (Project Syndicate) In the new world wrought by President Donald Trump, where one shock follows another, there is never time to think through fully the implications of the events with which we are bombarded. In late July, the Federal Reserve Board r…

By Eko Listiyorini and Yoga RusmanaWhile the world focuses on the ongoing trade war between China and the U.S., another spat has been brewing between commodity giant Indonesia and the European Union. Indonesia, the top producer of the world’s most-used veget…