In explaining the economic way of thinking, we start with the problems and opportunities of scarcity. For every person, family, and society, life confronts us with both problems to be solved and wonders to...
Stoa policy debaters have a topic on trade policy with China, Japan, South Korea, or Taiwan. Stoa LD debaters have two topics, including: Resolved: Developing countries ought to prioritize economic growth over environmental protection....
For Stoa debaters, further down in this post, I argue the “best person of the twenty-first century” could be a homeschool debater standing up before the United Nations and world leaders to make the...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
Marine natural resource policy was a Stoa debate topic two years ago. Ocean shipping and regional and global fishing issues and disputes turn out to be significant for the coming year’s Stoa resolution: Resolved:...
Daniel Griswold, in a January 26, 2011 Washington Times article, notes: China has become the final assembly operation in a global factory. Since 1990, imports from China have grown from 3 percent of total...
Stoa debaters who researched the marine natural resources topic will find some familiar stories in fishing disputes between China, Japan, and South Korea. This February 15, 2015 Bloomberg News article, “How Two Small Rocks...
