Just Say "Yes" to Free Trade

Daniel Griswold (pictured), director of the Herbert A. Stiefel Center for Trade Policy Studies at the Cato Institute and author of “Mad About Trade: Why Main Street America Should Embrace Globalization” (2009), says:

Republican leaders in Congress have been ready from day one to advance free trade by approving three pending trade agreements, with South Korea, Colombia and Panama. President Obama also favors the agreements, as do enough congressional Democrats to ensure their passage.

While the agreements probably will not put a visible dent in the U.S. unemployment rate, they will create better-paying jobs and more prosperity for American households.

Read the entire commentary here.

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Mad About Trade and By Golly, I am Going To Do Something About It!

Mad About Trade and By Golly, I Am Going To Do Something About It!

Okay, first things first, I have not read this book, just love the idea of it because I have always felt there is value in international trade.  I am so pro-global trade, can't you tell?  International trade expert Daniel T. Griswold, director of the Cato Institute's trade policy center, makes a persuasive case against U.S. protectionism.

Mad About Trade appears to be a readable and enjoyable defense of free trade which tells the (debated) story of how a more global U.S. economy has created better jobs and higher living standards for American workers.

That said, it might be worth a serious look.

Mad About Trade:  Why Main Street America Should Embrace Globalization

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