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Hoover Daily Report by topic: Trade

March 19, 2013 | EconLog

Was the Iraq War About Oil?

October 14, 2012 | Wall Street Journal

The Retreat of Globalization

April 15, 2012 | Wall Street Journal

A Passage to India-Pakistan Peace

A free trade agreement would give each country a stake in the other's success...
January 13, 2012 | Project Syndicate

Mind over Market

Most societies have important economic and other objectives that markets and competition are not designed to achieve. In today’s rapidly globalizing world, the most important of these objectives...are stability, distributional equity, and sustainability...
January 9, 2012 | EconLog

Mitt Romney on Mercantilism

[Romney has said] that the Chinese want to avoid a trade war with the United States more than the U.S. wants to avoid one with China because they have more at stake. But that's false...
September 21, 2011 | Project Syndicate

Closing America’s Growth Deficit

...[O]ne thing has become clear: the United States cannot generate higher rates of growth in GDP and employment without a change in the mix of the economy’s domestic and export-oriented components...
June 7, 2011 | Cafe Hayek

Eichengreen on the dollar

This week’s EconTalk is Barry Eichengreen talking about the dollar...For me, the most interesting part of the conversation was a discussion of China’s alleged currency manipulation to keep their exports high...
May 25, 2011 | Defining Ideas (Hoover Institution)

The "Fair" Trade Delusion

Why won’t the president move forward on bilateral free trade agreements...?
February 13, 2011 | EconLog

The "Right" Amount of Manufacturing

Free-trade critic Ian Fletcher argues that the United States has too little manufacturing. Even if manufacturing output is at an all-time high, he argues, it's still too low...
February 8, 2011 | KeithHennessey.com

The President’s hidden trade message

We should neither abandon our friends in Central America nor risk leaving them behind. The President should submit and Congress should quickly pass Free Trade Agreements with South Korea and Colombia and Panama...