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Commentaries tagged with trade

September 27, 2020	COVID May Amplify Factory Job TrendsFor manufacturing, production continues to grow and employment continues to decline.
July 5, 2020	More Presidential Confusion on TradeThe Trump Administration is accelerating the trade imbalance in the quickest way possible.
June 7, 2020	What Long-Term Changes Might We Anticipate from These Crises?The first half of 2020 has given us a trade war, global pandemic, economic downturn, and protests.
May 24, 2020	Don’t Expand the Trade WarTrade allows us to buy things we cannot efficiently produce ourselves.
October 20, 2019	Automation Risk, Trade Risk, and Public Policy We have 6 million fewer factory jobs since 1969.
September 15, 2019	Causes of a Possible RecessionEconomic shocks cause recessions.
September 8, 2019	The Costs of Natural DisastersNatural disasters impose costs on society, businesses, households and government.
August 11, 2019	Trade and the Division of LaborThe elemental essence of human interaction is trade.
July 28, 2019	The Trade War Is Slowing Our EconomyEconomic performance has slowed domestically and abroad.
November 4, 2018	China Is a Poor and Backward NationChina may ultimately prove a significant strategic threat to the United States.
September 2, 2018	The NAFTA Deal Is Pure BaloneyNAFTA effects were mitigated by changes in productivity.
July 22, 2018	Worsening Effect of TariffsTariffs have already affected the local economy.
July 8, 2018	Donnelly’s Automation Adjustment Act Should Be EnactedMost workers were not eligible for assistance because of job losses to automation, not trade.
June 10, 2018	We Are on the Cusp of Relearning the Impacts of Trade WarsLet me explain briefly and plainly what trade is and what it is not.
May 27, 2018	The Opposite of War Is Not Peace, It Is TradeTrade forces us to move beyond benign coexistence into cooperation.
May 6, 2018	Indiana at Huge Risk in Trade DisruptionsBetween 1818 and 2018, technology essentially killed every existing job and created every new one.
January 21, 2018	Carrier Illustrates the Big Economic Shifts of Our TimeMachines eliminate some labor and shift the skill and educational requirements of the surviving jobs.
September 10, 2017	Trade Deficits and the Dollar Safe HavenIn reality, trade consists of tens of billions of small transactions between businesses and households
July 23, 2017	Automation, Trade and Urbanization Require More Resilient People and PlacesOur study implies that regional inequality might be poised for a big increase.
February 5, 2017	The Makings of a Trump Economic PolicyDabbling in trade deals only shifts employment, not generate new.
January 29, 2017	Trade Deals Won’t Change Manufacturing EmploymentChanges to trade policy won’t have a meaningful effect on manufacturing employment.
November 27, 2016	The Origins of American Free TradeThe US created the first free trade zone.
August 21, 2016	The Importers Benefit from TradeUnbalanced trade activity points to an unbalance in efficiency.
March 13, 2016	Manufacturing Production, Manufacturing Jobs and Snake-OilAmerican manufacturing production has been booming, while manufacturing employment has been in decline.
June 7, 2015	Hoosiers Should Fret About GreeceA Greek bankruptcy would lead to tough times for the EU and likely the US.
May 26, 2013	International Trade Is the Opposite of WarWhat flummoxes me is not the academic debate, but the casual discussion about trade.
April 7, 2013	Bad Ideas Still ReignToday I see three bad intellectual influences that merit noting—one each from the political right, the left and bipartisan folly.
July 18, 2011	Free Trade and the Campaign for Village IdiotAny contention that the U.S. economy has shrunk, wages dropped or manufacturing production declined following NAFTA are simply untrue.
September 21, 2009	Chinese Tariffs Missteps toward Trade WarsIs the President willing to spawn a trade war and dampen foreign investment?
April 20, 2009	Cap and Trade a Double Edged SwordCap and Trade can lead to a much cleaner, more prosperous future or devastate our economy
May 12, 2008	Blocking Free Trade is ExpensiveTrade benefits all but the protected special interests.
December 10, 2007	Exporting From Indiana"Indiana's exporting firms are heavily concentrated in just a few manufacturing sectors."
February 25, 2005	In Defense of Free Trade Agreements "We should never make the mistake of accepting the idea that we are worse off today, economically, than we used to be."
August 1, 2003	We Restrict Trade At Our Own Peril "... extra dollars being collected by Indiana steelmakers are being paid by automakers, appliance manufacturers, and countless other industries who buy the product."
December 31, 1969	Silly Bands and Value Theory. . . It is the desire and scarcity for an item that generates its value in a market exchange.

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