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Surprise, surprise! Looks like those (allegedly) killer Mexican trucks I posted about a while back aren’t going to go Killdozer on us after all:
Under a one-year pilot program, as many as 100 Mexican trucking companies vetted by the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration at the Department of Transportation will be allowed to travel beyond the [...]

Remember waaaay back in high school economics, when you learned what a market economy is?

Market Economy- an economy that allocates resources through the decentralized decisions of many firms and households as they interact in markets for goods and services (Chapter 1, Principles of Microeconomics, N. Gregory Mankiw)
Well, it seems that Congressional Democrats might benefit from [...]

The Teamsters’ Union, apparently having spent last week binge-watching Killdozer and Steven Spielberg’s truck-menace movie, Duel, want you to be aware of the new threat to America: trucks. That’s right, the Bush administration is going to allow “unsafe Mexican trucks” to enter the country, and the Teamsters think this is bad, very bad.
But what’s [...]

Bloomberg has noted that the 2008 presidential candidates on both sides of the political spectrum have been relied on themes from past when conveying their stance on issues. For Republicans this means Ronald Reagan and a return to Reaganomics when talking about the economy and government spending.
A return to the ideas that drove policy under [...]

An op-ed today in the San Diego Tribune outlines the many economic benefits the United States has experienced since the enactment of the North American Free Trade Agreement in 1993. According to the Tribune:
Its adoption in 1993 helped kick off one of the great periods of sustained economic health in U.S. history. The resulting explosion [...]

The New York Times on the benefits of free trade:
… most economists still agree that free trade, for the most part, helps the economy, through increased job creation and lower prices, more than it hurts it, through jobs lost to low-wage competitors around the world. Overall, the aggregate benefits of globalization to American consumers, economists [...]

In their rush to rail against free trade during the AFL-CIO debate, Democratic presidential candidates simultaneously pandered to unions and illustrated their unabashed ignorance of economics.
Daniel Ikenson, associate director of Cato’s Center for Trade Policy Studies, wrote a recent article on the subject of trade.

A free-trade agreement would increase U.S. national income by an [...]

The Federal Farm Bill, which needs to be renewed every 5 years, was last passed in 2002 and is set to expire September 30th. There are many things wrong with the current agriculture subsidy regime. It only benefits a small number of wealthy farmers who grow only a very small number of crops, drives up [...]

Bryan Caplan had a nice essay in The Wall Street Journal on Saturday (subscription required).  Caplan has been working on these ideas for some time and has just published a widely praised book on the subject.  It would seem that it is important to educate people about how markets work while simultaneously giving politicians the [...]

Presidential candidate Tom Tancredo spoke about illegal immigration on ABC News This Week.
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