May 05, 2021 by Bill Platt
New director comes from the Stimson Center, a public policy and diplomacy think tank.
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Victoria K. Holt, vice president of the Stimson Center, a Washington, D.C.-based public policy research institute focused on international affairs, has been named the Norman E. McCulloch Jr. Director of the John Sloan Dickey Center for International Understanding. She is a former U.S. deputy assistant secretary of state for international security in the Bureau of International Organization Affairs in the Obama Administration.
Victoria K. Holt begins as the Norman E. McCulloch Jr. Director of the John Sloan Dickey Center for International Understanding on Sept. 1. (Photo courtesy of the Stimson Center)
Lessons About Trump And Trade
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So you won’t be surprised that I agree with the message in this video.
To elaborate, one of the big lessons of the Trump era is that he undermined his good policies – such as tax reform – by imposing higher taxes on global trade.
To state the obvious, it’s not a bad thing when foreigners decide they want to invest in the United States economy. Heck, it’s a good thing, a sign of economic strength.
Wall Street Journal late last year.
After four years, what have we learned? Many things, but especially that old economic truths still have value:
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The Pitfalls of Protectionism: Why Biden Should Abandon “Buy American”
The Pitfalls of Protectionism: Why Biden Should Abandon “Buy American”
March 15, 2021
In the lead-up to his inauguration, President Biden pledged to reverse course on many of his predecessor’s unwelcome policies. To some extent, he has already done so, having signed a slew of executive orders in just his first month in office. However, when it comes to trade policy, Biden has not as readily corrected the errors of the Trump administration. His adherence to Trump’s misguided trade agenda is reflected in the recent White House “Executive Order on Ensuring the Future Is Made in All of America by All of America’s Workers,” which strengthened the laws requiring the federal government to buy products from U.S.-based companies. Simply put, Biden’s consolidated “Buy American” laws will further ingrain the dangerous protectionism that Trump spearheaded, promoting unsustainable trade barriers over
The Result Of The Pies And Divine Light
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and the Divine Light It Brings), I discuss how the United States, with its unique structure and practices, builds unprecedented prosperity and liberty. How has this shining Light from America manifested into the world? Due to the spreading of free-market capitalism, with its emanating roots in America, “the share of the world population living in extreme poverty,” writes Dartmouth College economist Douglas Irwin in the Wall Street Journal, “[has] fallen to 15% in 2011 from 36% in 1990.”[1] That means nearly 1.5 billion people have risen out of object poverty in just over 20 years. That is the light shining out from America to the world. It is truly miraculous.