Canadian unions are urging retaliation against a Buy America provision:
Two of Canada’s largest unions are urging the federal government to adopt a Buy Canadian policy similar to the proposal that has been criticized in the United States.
The Europeans and the Chinese haven’t kicked in yet. President Obama and the Democrats in Congress are standing at the edge of a precipice, trying to decide whether to jump and further damage our economy.
H/T Greg Mankiw.
I'm sorry but...
Steph C Tuesday, February 10th at 1:35PM EST (link)I beyond caring about threatened trade wars. Before the bomb passed, I cared but now? Nope.
Any way you look at this it is pain with no discernible difference in the level of pain, only in where we feel it.
“[I]f the public are bound to yield obedience to laws to which they cannot give their approbation, they are slaves to those who make such laws and enforce them.” –Candidus in the Boston Gazette, 1772
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Whoo Hoo! Smoot Hawley rides again!
Brian Hibbert Tuesday, February 10th at 1:36PM EST (link)These people keep wanting to relive the great depression. Starting a trade war is a great way to get us there.
Socialism doesn’t work. It looks nice on paper, but it’s been tried and it’s failed miserably every time (usually accompanied by widespread death and suffering).
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