The U.S.-Korea Free Trade Agreement was proposed in June of 2007 and awaits congressional approval. The agreement would eliminate existing tariffs on many industrial and agricultural exports, consequently stimulating the US economy. As the Office of the United States Trade Representative reports: “The U.S. International Trade Commission estimates that the reduction of Korean tariffs and...
On Thursday, February 8th the Loyola University Economics Club hosted Dr. Christopher Coyne, assistant professor of economics at West Virginia University and author of “After War.” In “After War: The Political Economy of Exporting Democracy”, Coyne uses the tools of economics to analyze the ability of the US to export democracy abroad. He analyzes the...
In their report “Antitrust & Enforcement: Letting Markets Work without Empowering Government,” Ted Bolema, Ph.D., J.D., Antitrust and Competition Fellow at the Innovators Network Foundation, and Vance Ginn, Ph.D., Chief Economist at the Pelican Institute, write that while the current frustrations with the size of large tech companies and censorship practices may be warranted, giving...