"Trade Wars" are Trade Suicide.... Recently President Obama hiked taxes on Chinese imported tires an extra 35%. This harms low income Americans who would ordinarily buy the less expensive tires for their vehicles.
Nick Gillespie dispels trade myths surrounding protectionism and the manufacture of foreign products that are American designed.
Tom Palmer, Senior Fellow of Cato, and head of the Atlas Economic Research Foundation chats with Austin Petersen of the Libertarian Party. In this video he discusses the economic implications of the collapse of General Motors, protectionism under Obama, his recent back and forth with Peter Schiff on Freedom Watch, and the goal of Atlas.
New tariffs imposed by President Rafael Correa have temporarily boosted production within Ecuador, but the country's largest trade partners are angry and worried, and are threatening to retaliate, which would sink the fate of all countries involved in the Andean Free Trade Agreement.
The Adam Smith Institute and IPN co-hosted Daniel Ikenson at an event on May 28: "Us vs. Them? The global economy in a time of economic nationalism."
For more videos from the event, visit http://www.youtube.com/adamsmithinstitute
The stock market crash of 2009 has roots that are traceable to similar recessions in the previous decades. This video describes how policies of protectionism damage trade and contribute to recessions. This video is translated into Arabic.
The stock market crash of 2009 has roots that are traceable to similar recessions in the previous decades. This video describes how policies of protectionism damage trade and contribute to recessions. This video is translated into Chinese.
In this fascinating talk at the Technology, Entertainment, Design conference in February 2009, Alex Tabarrok, Professor of Economics at George Mason University, highlights the disastrous consequences of the increasing barriers to trade and commerce in the 1930s. Professor Tabarrok goes on to point out that many of the policies chosen in the second half of the 20th Century -- especially the unparalled reductions in the barriers to trade -- led to tremendous growth and prosperity. The lesson from his presentation is straight-forward: reducing the barriers to trade is the way out o
A series of disastrous economic decisions turned an economic downturn into the Great Depression. The Smoot-Hawley tariff harmed American consumers and a majority of American industry. Great Depression scholar Amity Shlaes explains how protectionism also contributed to tensions between nations prior to World War II.
Tom Palmer discusses the threat of protectionism, the correlation between free trade and peace, and launches the F2T petition, at the Freedom to Trade Campaign Launch in London, 1 April 2009.
June Arunga, African entrepreneur, discusses how the benefits of free trade for the average African, at the F2T Campaign launch in London, 1 April 2009.
Julian Morris comments on the G20 meeting, held in London in April 2009
Razeen Sally, Professor at the London School of Economics and Co-Director of ECIPE, speaks at the launch of the F2T campaign in London on 1 April 2009.
Moeletsi Mbeki, entrepreneur and deputy chairman of the South African Institute for International Affairs, speaks at the launch of the F2T campaign in London, 1 April 2009.
Eamonn Butler, representing F2T coalition member the Adam Smith Institute (London), speaks at the launch of the F2T campaign on 1 April 2009.
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