Did Charles Lane, a purported genius regarding economics, ever scribble a piece regarding
Obama's disdain for free markets?
Because for whatever Trump's economic policies are regarding free market capitalism, Obama's are exponentially worse.
Posted on 10/25/2015 4:33:41 AM PDT by Cringing Negativism Network
All right, let’s take Donald Trump seriously. Instead of ridiculing his hair, judge the man on his ideas, especially his business-oriented plans for rekindling the U.S. economy.
One of Trump’s top proposals, emblematic of a wider protectionist approach, is to stop Ford Motor Co.’s construction of a plant in Mexico, by threatening the Michigan company with tariffs on goods it might build south of the border.
http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/donald-trump%E2%80%99s-contempt-for-the-free-market/ar-BBmj7qW?li=BBieRxq
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Enough of the sell-out. The author is simply another person saying we need to keep building up other countries.
He is wrong.
We need to start building up America once again.
I’m with you. He complains about countries taking advantage of our competitive stupidity. Wants to correct that.
Yes!
I simply don’t trust a man who puts Americans first.
NAFTA is not free trade. It clearly gave advantage to Mexico to take our jobs while sending their uneducated unemployed here. A true double whammy.
The author confuses “free market” for “libertarian style free trade.”
The two are not the same.
When we run out of illegal Mexicans, then maybe we can reform immigration laws. Bad choice of words?
Trump is for FAIR trade,not FREE trade!
There are many who are adherents to the von Mises/Hayek/Austrian school of economics who would disagree with Trump. However, they have failed (at least in my mind) to explain how these theories of economics work in a society which does not possess any semblance of sovereignty.
It becomes the ultimate question: Does our national sovereignty create the conditions for free market success or is it the reverse? Currently, I am not convinced that adopting laissez faire proposals and attitudes (just get government out of the way) is in our national security interest. There are too many built-in structural defects, too many global economic rivals.
It basically comes down to this: you have to be alive first, before you can be conservative. In that sense I can support protectionist measures even if they run counter to mainstream conservative economic thought. Now, if some smart FReeper can explain how opening things market-wise enhances American sovereignty then I’m willing to listen. But it will take more than the standard, “increased competition means greater innovation, new economies and manufacturing sector is so 20th century” argument to convince me.
But I’m willing to be convinced. Consider me an agnostic on the subject.
After Pres. TRUMP has Mexico build the wall there will be lots of labor to work in those factories
Besides, Ford already has Mexican factories...
I hope Charles Lane gets lymph cancer.
There are many who are adherents to the von Mises/Hayek/Austrian school of economics who would disagree with Trump. However, they have failed (at least in my mind) to explain how these theories of economics work in a society which does not possess any semblance of sovereignty.
As an adherent to the Mises/Hayek/Austrian school of economics, I’ll respond. You are correct. We can’t explain how those theories work. That’s why I’m losing my adherence on those theorists. Nassim Nicholas Taleb (The Black Swan author) states in one of his books that the global interdependence of today’s economies creates fragility that cannot be tamed. It will blow up.
You ask great questions. The answers have to come from the idea that America is great again.
Did Charles Lane, a purported genius regarding economics, ever scribble a piece regarding
Obama's disdain for free markets?
Because for whatever Trump's economic policies are regarding free market capitalism, Obama's are exponentially worse.
Free market?
FREE MARKET!?!?!
What the hell it he talking about??
Our market hasn’t been “free” for half a CENTURY or MORE!
Utter bullshit.
The ‘hit pieces’ are just starting to begin, we haven’t seen anything yet...read how these writers slip the words in there to convince you they are telling the truth....
We on here at Free Republic know what they do, but the others out there that don’t know these little tricks lap up everything printed or put on T.V...
Some days I think we are making head way, and other days I have to wonder how big that ‘stupid stick’ really is....
Non of our trade agreements are free trade they are stupid trade.
We don’t need to help Mexico with jobs, we need to help America with jobs...why not build a plant in Tennessee or Connecticut or Georgia, Ford??
America has a foreign University of Arizona Law School professor to thank for NAFTA. Part of a leftist coup in U.S. educational system some suspect.
Boris. Koholchyck. Sp?
To the writer:
The question is not whether Ford can (or should) build a plant in Mexico. The question is:
Should Ford, be allowed to import the parts manufactured in Mexico without paying import duty?
What is the amount of Duty laid upon Ford’s products as they enter Mexico from the US? If the answer is zero, then let Ford proceed. If the answer is $0.01 then Ford should be paying duty on anything that enters from Mexico.
Overall, in light of NAFTA is Mexico laying import duties on anything imported from the US?
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