Protectionism

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…

Tweet … is from page 48 of John Stuart Mills 1825 essay The Corn Laws, as this essay is reprinted in Essays on Economics and Society Part I, which is volume IV of The Collected Works of John Stuart Mill (Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, 2006): It will scarcely, …

ANKARA-Anadolu Agency Turkey breaks export records despite global trade wars and rising protectionism, the country's trade minister said on Aug. 6.  "Turkish exports go through the hardest period but we continue to hit records thanks to steps taken by the g…

Now its getting serious. Monday saw the worst day for U.S. stocks so far this year after President Trump announced new tariffs on Chinese imports last week and China responded by allowing its currency to fall to its lowest level in a decade. The benchmark…

Tweet … is from page 89 of Pierre Lemieuxs superb 2018 monograph, Whats Wrong With Protectionism?: It should be fairly obvious by now that the common objections to free trade are without economic foundations. They ultimately rest on a nationalist and interv…

Getty Images Topline: Stocks across the U.S. and Asia are stabilizing after falling sharply on Tuesday in response to the U.S. officially branded China as a currency manipulator. It came after China's central bank allowed the yuan to fall to its lowest level…

LONDON (Reuters) - A freer-floating yuan could be a positive for China’s sovereign credit rating, agency Fitch said on Tuesday, by helping preserve its foreign exchange reserves and cushioning some of the negative effects of U.S. trade tariffs. Andrew Fenne…