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Improving Commerce and Security in the Americas: A Civitas Outlook Symposium
Contributors:
Hérnan Bonilla “The Twilight of Free Trade”
Alejandro Chafuen “Enhancing Trade, Peace, and Security in the Americas: The Role of Think Tanks”
Samuel Gregg “A US Trade Strategy for Latin America”
G. Patrick Lynch “The Young Americas Need Each Other”
Leonidas Zelmanovitz “Love, Hedges, and Bad Neighborhoods”
Questions of trade, immigration, crime, and international security, among other issues, currently mark the United States’ relationships with Central and Latin American nations. Much of the dialogue in the US on these issues brings to bear justifiable concern for security and worry that the problems plaguing our neighbors in this region will overflow to the US. What are the possible ways to increase prospects for peace, commerce, and flourishing? We’ve asked five people from the US and Latin America who deal with these issues to offer ideas.
Hérnan Bonilla “The Twilight of Free Trade”
Alejandro Chafuen “Enhancing Trade, Peace, and Security in the Americas: The Role of Think Tanks”
Samuel Gregg “A US Trade Strategy for Latin America”
G. Patrick Lynch “The Young Americas Need Each Other”
Leonidas Zelmanovitz “Love, Hedges, and Bad Neighborhoods”
Economic Dynamism
The Causal Effect of News on Inflation Expectations
This paper studies the response of household inflation expectations to television news coverage of inflation.
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The Rise of Inflation Targeting
This paper discusses the interactions between politics and economic ideas leading to the adoption of inflation targeting in the United States.
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The Revenge of the Supply-Siders
Trump would do well to heed his supply-side advisers again and avoid the populist Keynesian shortcuts of stimulus checks or easy money.
U.S. Can’t Cave to Europe’s Anti-Growth Agenda
One does not have to support protectionist tariffs or protracted trade wars to see why Washington needs to continue using trade to pressure Eurocrats to give up micromanaging tech platforms and supply chains around the world.
