Are American Workers Just Getting What They Deserve?
Ian Fletcher Activist Post If you don’t think American workers are being inexorably scr*wed by our governing establishment’s embrace of “free” trade, stop reading right…
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Review: Thom Hartmann’s Rebooting the American Dream
Ian Fletcher Activist Post Thom Hartmann is famous as a liberal commentator on the radio, on TV, and in over a dozen books. But he…
Economists Are Hopelessly Naïve About International Trade
Ian Fletcher Activist Post The economics profession, or well over 90 percent of it according to polls, continues to support free trade. Above all, most…
Economic Nationalism: Fair or Foul?
Ian Fletcher Activist Post Because we have a national government, because Americans care about what happens to their economy, and because it is the national…
Holy Cow! A Real Debate About Free Trade
Ian Fletcher Activist Post Despite being one of the most pressing policy choices facing America, and despite having been one of the biggest controversies in…
Is it America vs. Poor Nations in Trade? No.
Ian Fletcher Activist Post Question: is there a fundamental us vs. them dynamic in America’s trade with the developing world? Is a sound trade policy…
More Free Trade Agreements? When NAFTA Failed?
Ian Fletcher Activist Post With the Republicans and the Obama administration attempting to rush headlong into a new trade agreements with Korea, and possibly also…
Free Trade Won’t Help World Poverty
Ian Fletcher Activist Post The propaganda for free trade tells us that not only is it the master key to our own prosperity, but also…
Time to Quit Pining for a “Level Playing Field” in International Trade
Ian Fletcher Activist Post One of the most common plaints from those who are upset about America’s current trade mess is “just give us a…
Why “Fair” Trade Is Not The (Whole) Answer
Ian Fletcher Activist Post The idea of “fair” trade is very appealing, whether confronting the plight of autoworkers in Michigan or farmers in the Third World….
Kennedy’s Blunder, or How Free Trade Turned Sour for America
Ian Fletcher Activist Post How did America end up in its present trade pickle? NAFTA? No way. The WTO? I wish. To understand our present…
WTO Judicial Activism vs. America
Ian Fletcher Activist Post The WTO’s latest outrage has brought this odious organization to public attention again, but this is hardly the first time it…
Conversations with Great Minds with Ian Fletcher – Problems of Free Trade/Globalism (Video)
TheBigPictureRT Ian Fletcher is Senior Economist of the Coalition for a Prosperous America, a nationwide grass-roots organization dedicated to fixing America’s trade policies and comprising…
WTO Sides With Chinese State Capitalism Against the U.S.
Ian Fletcher Activist Post The World Trade Organization has a long history of anti-American actions. They’ve just handed us another one, and in the process…