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Showing posts with label Ian Fletcher. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Ian Fletcher. Show all posts
Monday, May 30, 2011

Why Johnny Can’t Innovate: the American Economy’s Most Surprising Deficit

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Ian Fletcher Activist Post I argued in  a previous article  why, despite America’s current obsession with government budget issues, the r...
Thursday, May 26, 2011

The American Manufacturing Crisis and Why it Matters

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Ian Fletcher Activist Post  Despite the denial chorus of the same politicians, financiers, and economists who told us prior to 2008 that ou...
Saturday, April 30, 2011

America’s Fate Under Chinese Hegemony

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A Review of Eamonn Fingleton’s  Jaws of the Dragon Ian Fletcher   Activist Post   The  news  has recently hit the press that China...
Friday, April 22, 2011

Answering Objections to a Tariff

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Ian Fletcher Activist Post It’s only fair to answer some of the objections to the idea of an  import tariff  that I and others, like ...
Wednesday, April 20, 2011

Why Donald Trump is Right on Trade

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Ian Fletcher Activist Post The usual suspects are  racing to debunk  Donald Trump’s foray into the most serious protectionism—a 25% ...
Monday, April 18, 2011

A Tariff Would, Too, Fix Our Trade Mess

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Ian Fletcher  Activist Post I and my employer, the  Coalition for a Prosperous America , are unabashed protectionists.  I have writt...
Wednesday, April 13, 2011

No Need for Villains on the Trade Issue

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Ian Fletcher Activist Post Judging by, among other things, the comments posted on articles about America’s trade mess, a lot of peopl...
Saturday, April 9, 2011

Economists Shocked, Shocked: We Really Are Losing Jobs to China!

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Ian Fletcher Activist Post There’s a nice new academic paper just out by an MIT economist and his friends that gives some hard data ...
Friday, April 8, 2011

The Theory That’s Killing America’s Economy—and Why It’s Wrong

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Ian Fletcher Activist Post I wrote in a  previous article  how America’s disastrous embrace of free trade is ultimately based on a fa...
Thursday, April 7, 2011

The Famous (and Almost Never Understood) Theory of Comparative Advantage

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Ian Fletcher Activist Post You can read about the free trade controversy for months and never hear about it.  But in the minds of real ec...
Wednesday, April 6, 2011

Why Public Support for Free Trade Will Collapse Soon

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Ian Fletcher Activist Post For once, some good news: public support for free trade will almost certainly collapse over the next few ...
Friday, April 1, 2011

Are American Workers Just Getting What They Deserve?

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Ian Fletcher Activist Post If you don’t think American workers are being inexorably scr*wed by our governing establishment’s embrace ...
Thursday, March 31, 2011

Review: Thom Hartmann’s Rebooting the American Dream

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Ian Fletcher Activist Post Thom Hartmann is famous as a liberal commentator on the radio, on TV, and in over a dozen books. But he ha...
Tuesday, March 29, 2011

Economists Are Hopelessly Naïve About International Trade

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Ian Fletcher Activist Post The economics profession, or well over 90 percent of it  according to polls , continues to support free t...
Thursday, March 24, 2011

Economic Nationalism: Fair or Foul?

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Ian Fletcher Activist Post Because we  have  a national government, because Americans care about what hap­pens to  their  economy, a...
Tuesday, March 22, 2011

Holy Cow! A Real Debate About Free Trade

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Ian Fletcher Activist Post Despite being one of the most pressing policy choices facing America, and despite having been one of the bigge...
Monday, March 21, 2011

Is it America vs. Poor Nations in Trade? No.

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Ian Fletcher Activist Post Question: is there a fundamental us vs. them dynamic in America’s trade with the developing world? Is a sound ...
Sunday, March 20, 2011

More Free Trade Agreements? When NAFTA Failed?

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Ian Fletcher Activist Post With the Republicans and the Obama administration attempting to rush headlong into a new trade  agreements wit...
Saturday, March 19, 2011

Free Trade Won’t Help World Poverty

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Ian Fletcher Activist Post  The propaganda for free trade tells us that not only is it the master key to our  own  prosperity, but also t...
Friday, March 18, 2011

Time to Quit Pining for a “Level Playing Field” in International Trade

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Ian Fletcher Activist Post One of the most common plaints from those who are upset about America’s current trade mess is “just give us a ...