Michael Stumo, CEO of CPA, wrote a letter to the editor regarding the article: Long-Simmering Anger About Trade Is Boiling Over for Voters in New York Times. His response was published. There is an old joke about a shipwrecked economist advising his stranded colleagues how to open a can of food by saying “assume we have a…

One of the truly dumbest arguments I hear in favor of free trade is that national borders are “arbitrary.” [Ian Fletcher| April 4, 2016 |Huffington Post] I usually get this from right-wing libertarian types, but occasionally from “one world” leftists, too. But it’s not true. For a start, calling national borders “arbitrary” is simply irrelevant,…