Adam Smith's Enemy Was the East India Company, Not the Tariff of 1789

Adam Smith’s Enemy Was the East India Company, Not the Tariff of 1789

This week, Scott Lincicome marked the 250th anniversary of The Wealth of Nations by recruiting Adam Smith into the free-trade lobby’s war on American tariffs. It’s a clever conscription, but it depends on erasing the most important fact about Smith’s world: when Smith attacked “mercantilism,” he was attacking a system America’s founders also rejected — and replaced with something Smith never imagined.

CPA Applauds Expanded Pentagon List of Chinese Military Companies

CPA Applauds Expanded Pentagon List of Chinese Military Companies

CPA welcomed the U.S. Department of War expanding its Section 1260H list of Chinese military companies and praised recent efforts by lawmakers, including Senator Rick Scott (R-FL), to draw greater attention to the threat posed by China’s military-civil fusion strategy.