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  • September 10, 2009
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    Thursday Links
    Michael Tanner on the Obama health care speech: All sizzle, no substance. Why Main Street should embrace globalization. Plus, why international trade doesn’t cause unemployment at home. Should the IRS have the right to share your tax information with …
  • May 3, 2007
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    Singapore Becoming One of the World’s Stellar Tax Havens
    The New York Times has a thorough story detailing how officials in Singapore are taking advantage of globalization to diversify the nation’s economy. Bank secrecy and good tax law are particularly helpful in attracting capital from people suffering from …
    By Daniel J. Mitchell
  • December 13, 2012
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    Did the Profit Motive Spark the Recent Asian Factory Fires?
    [This is an expanded version of my opinion piece in the New York Times online, today.] Critics of capitalism and globalization have rendered judgment: Western apparel brands and big box retailers, in their zeal to perpetuate and profit from …
    By Daniel J. Ikenson
  • January 11, 2011
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    New Cato Unbound: Culture, Tradition, and the Modern World
    Conservatives often talk about the modern world in terms of decline. Old traditions fall victim to market dynamism, integration, and globalization, and our society is the poorer for it. Newer isn’t better — it’s more superficial, less rooted, and …
    By Jason Kuznicki
  • September 20, 2007
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    Will American Capitalism Be Surpassed?
    Sallie James hit the nail on the head in her blog post today: “business deals, and not formally negotiated trade agreements, are driving globalization.” That made me think of this Deutsche Post webpage I came across. It sounds spectacular: The …
    By Chris Edwards
  • September 20, 2007
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    The True Leaders of Trade Liberalization
    A great article today [subscription required] in the Financial Times reminds us that business deals, and not formally negotiated trade agreements, are driving globalization. That’s not to say that a good outcome on the Doha round wouldn’t be …
    By Sallie James
  • May 4, 2006
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    Back from the Former USSR
    I’ve just returned from a fascinating week in Russia and Ukraine. I was in Moscow last week to deliver some lectures regarding my book on globalization, Against the Dead Hand, which was recently translated into Russian. From there I …
    By Brink Lindsey
  • September 25, 2015
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    TTIP Could Rein in the Abuse of Tax Incentives to Attract Foreign Investment
    I’ve written often about the global competition to attract foreign investment, and have made the point that investment flows to jurisdictions with good policies in place. Globalization of production and the mobility of capital mean that national policies (regulations …
    By Daniel J. Ikenson
  • September 21, 2009
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    Trade Delivers Peace and Bargain Prices
    Mad about trade For a fair and authoritative (and did I mention favorable?) assessment of my new Cato book, Mad about Trade: Why Main Street America Should Embrace Globalization, you can read William H. Peterson’s review in today’s …
    By Daniel Griswold
  • November 2, 2008
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    Tax Competition Pushing Down Personal Tax Rates
    Politicians love to figure out ways to rape and pillage minorities in order to win votes from majorities, and this is why class‐​warfare tax policy is a common tactic. Fortunately, globalization is making it more difficult for politicians to …
    By Daniel J. Mitchell
  • April 25, 2007
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    No Pearl(stein)s of Wisdom
    Count the Washington Post’s chief business writer, Steven Pearlstein, among the disciples of “Dobbsonomics.” In his column today, Pearlstein writes: There is a reason that, when it comes to trade and globalization, more Americans believe Lou Dobbs than Hank …
    By Daniel J. Ikenson
  • October 23, 2020
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    Tariffs, Michigan, and the Perils of “Political Protectionism”
    Conventional wisdom among the D.C. punditocracy is that protectionism, while likely bad economics, is good politics because it can boost critical “Rust Belt” swing states that have large manufacturing sectors and have been hit hard by globalization. A new …
    By Scott Lincicome
  • July 7, 2006
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    How Soccer Explains the Dead Hand
    … good book. I’m talking about TNR editor Frank Foer’s How Soccer Explains the World: An Unlikely Theory of Globalization. The book, which came out in 2004, offers a series of fascinating, compulsively readable profiles of soccer’s cultural …
    By Brink Lindsey
  • February 9, 2023
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    2022 U.S.-China Trade Data Shows No Signs of Widespread Decoupling
    Earlier this week, the Census Bureau released its official 2022 trade data. As our Cato colleague Scott Lincicome noted, the overall data continues to undercut the popular narrative pushed by politicians and pundits about the demise of globalization. On a …
    By Clark Packard and Alfredo Carrillo Obregon
  • December 11, 2009
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    Weekend Links
    Health care insurance mandates: Why it is unconstitutional for the government to force you to purchase a product you don’t want to buy. Should malpractice reform be included in the pending health care bill? The end of globalization? Cato …
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