On Feb. 19, 1904, a young English politician delivered a speech at Free Trade Hall in Manchester, England. For more than 90 minutes, he spoke with precision, wit, and humor, drawing guffaws as he ...

US Delegation, including US Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer (2nd R) and Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross (R) talks with the Chinese Delegation including Vice Premier Liu He (2nd L) during ...

There are more books with “Napoleon” in their titles than there have been days since the death of the French emperor and general in 1821. So reports Andrew Roberts in his magisterial biography of the ...

In an exclusive article for Nhan Dan, the official newspaper of Vietnam's Communist Party, Chinese President Xi Jinping wrote that "trade war and tariff war will produce no winner, and protectionism ...

The deal required India's approval because EuroGroup owns 40% of Kumar Precision Stampings, which it bought in 2024. Even though the two sides offered to carve out the Indian operations to satisfy ...

“The greatest fever of all was aspiration, a belief in the sheer possibility to remake a life.” That’s what Evan Osnos wrote in Age of Ambition, his remarkable 2014 book about life in emerging China.

President Trump is reimaging U.S. foreign and international economic policies, and Americans won’t be richer. After World War II, the United States fostered security alliances — NATO and regional ...

Many analysts have interpreted Trump’s protectionist stance, and the United States’ imposition of tariffs, as economically irrational. If the liberal motto was once that “under free trade everybody ...

Globalism — the free flow of money, people and goods — has made the world a heck of a lot richer over the past several decades. But it’s always been subject to some threat or other. In recent years, ...

Two questions for my protectionist readers, if I may. First, what qualifies some professional groups to be privileged over others? Second, if we allow such groups to exist, are tariffs really the way ...

Electric cars (EVs) represent not only a change in the way we drive it they are transforming the balance of power, trade and economic policies in the world. With nations racing towards achieving ...

Reprinted with Permission from The Next American Economy: Nation, State, and Markets in an Uncertain World, by Samuel Gregg, published by Encounter Books. @ 2022 by ...