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What the New Right Gets Right—and Wrong—About Free Trade

What the New Right Gets Right—and Wrong—About Free Trade

Update: 2025-05-26
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Bob takes a close look at Oren Cass’s recent appearance on Tucker Carlson, where Cass argued for free trade to a skeptical conservative audience. Bob unpacks Cass’s arguments about tariffs, comparative advantage, and trade deficits—not to attack, but to clarify. Using classical and Austrian economics, Murphy shows why U.S. economic malaise can’t be solved with tariffs, but also why dismissing Cass’s concerns outright is a strategic and economic mistake.

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What the New Right Gets Right—and Wrong—About Free Trade

What the New Right Gets Right—and Wrong—About Free Trade

Robert P. Murphy