I’m very grateful to Dave Hebert that he’s never gone wobbly on the genius of free trade. He’s right that we agree. Why my response to his? It’s an attempt to convince him not about free trade, but about currency, IP, and so-called “trade deficits.” Will I succeed? It recalls the line from the […]
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There were “lines for everything” in the former Soviet Union. That’s what Hedrick Smith conveyed to rapt readers in his 1976 book, The Russians. As frustrated Americans endured long waits for price-controlled gasoline in the 1970s, Smith reminded Americans of how good they had it through Russians for whom shopping was an endless, frequently fruitless
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Perhaps Javier Milei’s economic reform program has been oversold by Milei, along with myriad free-market proponents in the United States. That’s not a dig at free markets. It’s just a comment that if Milei were really pursuing market-oriented reforms, Argentina wouldn’t require U.S. aid. Just the same, that Argentina is apparently in need
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