Into the Great Wide Open: How Millennials Look at Trade
By William Reinsch Editor’s Note: This is the second in a series of three pieces examining demographic trends and their impact on the global economy. Last week I wrote about demography and the opportunity worker-deficient nations have to put themselves back on the path to growth by taking in young workers from countries that have […]
Bill Reinsch quoted in Sputnik News on Trump and Clinton trade deal politicies
MOSCOW (Sputnik) — On other issues, be it the US role in international affairs or environmental policies, Republican nominee Donald Trump and his Democratic rival Hillary Clinton are standing the world apart, but their views on trade deals have much in common despite different wordings and rhetoric. Both candidates are in unison pledging to pursue only those agreements that would be in the best […]
No Country for Old Men? Demography’s Impact on the Global Economy
Editor’s Note: This is the first of three pieces examining global demographic trends and their impact on the global economy. By William Reinsch: One of the relatively untold stories of economic policy is the decisive role demography plays in how countries grow and prosper — or not. By “demography” I mean population size and growth as […]
Bill Reinsch quoted in Politico on Asia-Pacific nations and the TPP
JAPAN’S TPP MOVES PUT PRESSURE ON U.S.: The United States’ inability to move forward on the TPP isn’t stopping other members of the pact from going ahead and trying to ratify it themselves. A Japanese embassy aide said Tuesday that government leaders in Tokyo hope to pass the agreement by the end of the year, and […]
Bill Reinsch quoted in Politico on the Black Lives Matter movement and the TPP
The Obama administration will face an unexpected adversary as it gears up for what could be a blockbuster lame-duck fight over the Trans-Pacific Partnership: the Black Lives Matter movement. -snip- “There are groups that are going to pay a lot of close attention to what they say, especially the Congressional Black Caucus,” said Bill Reinsch, […]
A Case for Free Trade Agreements
By William Reinsch: Earlier this week I had an opportunity to participate in a debate at Brookings. The proposition was: Free trade deals have been a net positive for working Americans. I was on the affirmative team. The following are excerpts from my opening statement. This appears to be an issue that proves wrong Pat Moynihan’s […]
Trade and the Global Campaign
By William Reinsch: In the heat of the presidential trade debate, one irony seems to have escaped both participants and observers, and that is while trade may not be helping anybody here — which is highly debatable — it is incontestably helping millions of people elsewhere. “Between 1990 and 2010, their number [people in extreme […]
The Challenge of Intellectual Property Protection
By William Reinsch: Sometimes things you think are obvious turn out to not be so simple. You would think that there would be a broad consensus that protecting intellectual property – patents, trademarks, trade secrets, and the like – is a good thing, that it is an important way to encourage innovation because it assures inventors, […]