IAN
FLETCHER

ECONOMIST & AUTHOR

Economist Ian Fletcher is one of America’s foremost experts on the problems of free trade. He is the author of Free Trade Doesn’t Work and the coauthor of  The Conservative Case Against Free Trade and Industrial Policy for the United States.

 


 

He has been senior economist at the Coalition, a research fellow at the US Business and Industry Council, an economist in private practice, and an IT consultant. He was educated at Columbia University and the University of Chicago. He lives in San Francisco.

 

CPA Speakers Bureau Member: Ian Fletcher is available to speak to the topics of:

  1. Trade and Free Trade Agreements
  2. Why free trade is bad
  3. Globalization/globalism
  4. What’s wrong with economics as a discipline.

 

Ian Fletcher

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As Food Imports Rise, FDA Drops Ball on Food Inspections Worldwide

As Food Imports Rise, FDA Drops Ball on Food Inspections Worldwide

Food imports into the U.S. are on the rise. The trend now is for agricultural commodity trade deficits, rather than surpluses, with key commodities like beef usually in a deficit. Despite the increase in food imports, the Food and Drug Administration conducted far fewer than the annual goal of 19,200 inspections, according to FDA data.

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