Is Faith in Free Trade Misplaced?
Jeff Madrick, a senior fellow with the Century Foundation, in “Our Misplaced Faith in Free Trade,” an October 3, 2014 opinion column for the New York Times notes: Trade is one of the few areas on...
Author: Gregory Rehmke
Federal Regulations Slow Start-ups and Health Care Innovation
State regulation of hairbraiders was the subject of the Braiding Freedom video in the last post. Continuing the theme of the last few posts on the costs and injustices of overregulation, this post looks again at the...
Should Federal Courts Defend Rights to Economic Freedom?
There are a great many ways Federal courts could be reformed. One major reform articulated, litigated, and advocated over the last twenty years by legal scholars with the Institute for Justice, is to revive the...
Ship, Baby, Ship! Trading Oil, LNG, Coal With China, Japan, SK, and Taiwan
For Stoa debaters researching the Asia trade policy topic, U.S. exports of oil, natural gas (LNG), and coal to China and other Asian countries are policies worth investigating. Current federal policies block oil exports...
Labor Laws: Uber’s Road to Serfdom, or Think Tanks to the Rescue?
This Forbes column by John Goodman of the Goodman Institute looks at the ongoing disputes over ride-sharing services like Uber, and at the differences between labor law (actually legislation), and the common law. From “It’s...
Trade Reform: Focus on Reducing Chinese (and U.S.) Domestic Subsidies
On both sides of each good or service traded internationally, people and firms prosper. That is, the buyer of a good or service expects to be better off from the exchange, as does the...
Renewing Federal Powers for Domestic Spying
The Hill, June 19, 2015, reports “Spy court clears path to renewing NSA powers.” The secretive federal court that oversees the nation’s spies is laying the groundwork for temporarily reauthorizing the National Security Agency’s...
“Spy court clears path to renewing NSA powers”
The Hill, June 19, 2015, reports “Spy court clears path to renewing NSA powers.” The secretive federal court that oversees the nation’s spies is laying the groundwork for temporarily reauthorizing the National Security Agency’s...
Excess Regulations Hurts U.S. Manufacturing More Than Asian Competitors
Manufacturing associations such as the National Association of Manufacturing (NAM) have been wary or hostile to imports from foreign manufacturers. But manufacturers and associations recognize that for U.S. firms to compete in world markets,...
The Financial Stakes in Federal Courts Protecting Liberty of Contract
Previous posts discussed books and studies on the historical and current debate over liberty of contract. If Uber drivers contract with Uber and with Uber customers to give people rides, should city regulators be...