In a recent Milwaukee Journal Sentinel article (via Pulitzer) Rick Barrett notes “Manufacturing is coming home” to Wisconsin. Does the data support this?
Category Archives: Trade Policy
Stephen Moore: “If you liked what Trump did on the economy the first time, you’ll like what he does the second time”
Kim Ruhl: “U.S. China Trade: From the Cold War to the Trade War”
Economics Dept and CROWE presents:
Guest Contribution: “On the time-varying impact of China’s bilateral political relations on its trading partners: “doux commerce” or “trade follows the flag”?”
Today we are pleased to present a guest contribution by Jamel Saadaoui (University of Strasbourg).
Trends in German Trade on the Eve of World War I
One shouldn’t just say increasing (or decreasing) trade between potential adversaries predicts something.
Musings on Economic Policies in a Trump Second Term
We don’t know much, but we know tax cuts and tariffs are on the agenda. I suppose that, while he might not execute the Fed Chair (that’s reserved for a select few), he is likely to try to otherwise eject him/her if policy is not to his liking.
Guest Contribution: “Naomi Klein’s Brand”
Today, we present a guest post written by Jeffrey Frankel, Harpel Professor at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, and formerly a member of the White House Council of Economic Advisers. A shorter version appeared at Project Syndicate.
World Trade Volume Stalls
The Dutch CBP tallies world trade volumes. Here’s the total world trade series, compared to total industrial production (production weighted), since 2000.
The Return of the Economic Undead
One shows that they are economic fraudsters over and over, with discredited ideas, but they keep on coming back. From WaPo:
…his top economic advisers … to map out a trade-focused economic plan for his presidential bid…. including former senior White House officials Larry Kudlow and Brooke Rollins, as well as outside advisers Stephen Moore and former House speaker Newt Gingrich…
Douglas Irwin: “The Return of Industrial Policy”
From an Finance and Development (June) article, by Douglas Irwin (Dartmouth), author of Clashing over Commerce: A History of U.S. Trade Policy (University of Chicago Press, 2017), Free Trade under Fire (Princeton), and currently President of the Economic History Association.