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Daniel T. Griswold is director of the Cato Institute's Center for Trade Policy Studies. Before joining Cato in 1997, Griswold served as a congressional press secretary and a daily newspaper editorial page editor.

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Higher Immigration, Lower Crime

Yes, you read that right. The story is more complicated than a short headline can covey, but that is the gist of an article of mine in the just-out December issue of Commentary magazine. [Subscription needed.] The past 15 years have witnessed two ...

From DANIEL GRISWOLD, Cato@Liberty,  24 Nov 2009

Colombia Trade Deal Enters Fourth Year of Limbo

Sunday marked the third anniversary of the signing of a free trade agreement between the United States and Colombia. It is an embarrassment to our great nation that this agreement with an important Latin American ally still sits on the shelf three ...

From DANIEL GRISWOLD, Cato@Liberty,  23 Nov 2009

Related Topics: AFL-CIO,  Alvaro Uribe,  U.S. Congress,  Hugo Chávez

Tear Down This Wall between the U.S. and Cuba

The House Foreign Affairs Committee is holding a hearing today on the almost 50 year old ban on travel to Cuba. The ban is part of a broader economic embargo in place since the early 1960s that was supposed to bring about change in the island’s ...

From DANIEL GRISWOLD, Cato@Liberty,  19 Nov 2009

U.S. “the Most Open Market”? Not Even Close

The administration’s “more open than thou” rebuttal is a weak one. As I write in Chapter 9 of my new Cato book, Mad about Trade: If an Olympics were held for the most open economy, the United States would be out of medal contention. According to the ...

From DANIEL GRISWOLD, Cato@Liberty,  17 Nov 2009

The Missing Leg of Immigration Reform

In a speech this morning in Washington, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said the Obama administration remains committed to enacting real immigration reform. In a key passage in her remarks, she said reform must contain three essential ...

From DANIEL GRISWOLD, Cato@Liberty,  13 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Janet Napolitano,  Barack Obama,  U.S. Congress

Good Night, Lou Dobbs

are now defined in the public arena by partisanship and ideology rather than by rigorous empirical thought and forthright analysis and discussion. I will be working diligently to change that as best I can. I would argue that his very act of resigning ...

From DANIEL GRISWOLD, Cato@Liberty,  12 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Lou Dobbs,  New York Times Company

Imports Wrongly Blamed for Unemployment

Import competition can throw Americans out of work. Even advocates of free trade like me will readily acknowledge that fact. And nobody needs to remind the people of Hickory, North Carolina. The region has lost more of its jobs to international ...

From DANIEL GRISWOLD, Cato@Liberty,  10 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Amazon.com

Cato Podcast Exposes Anti-Poor Bias of U.S. Tariffs

The dirty secret of the U.S. tariff code is that it is not only insanely complex but that it is biased against the poor. Our highest remaining trade barriers are imposed on goods that loom the largest in the budgets of poor and middle-income families — ...

From DANIEL GRISWOLD, Cato@Liberty,  6 Nov 2009

Ask Consumers if They Like a Weak Dollar

According to a Washington Post story today, “the weak dollar is one problem the United States loves to have.” The story reports how the fall of the dollar against the euro and other currencies in the past year has boosted U.S. exports and discouraged ...

From DANIEL GRISWOLD, Cato@Liberty,  29 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Washington Post Company

Spectator.org Readers Getting “Mad about Trade”

Daniel Griswold is not shy about sharing the high aspirations he harbors for his superlative new book Mad about Trade. Griswold has managed to compose a volume as accessible and persuasive as it is indispensable, as fresh and uplifting as it is firmly ...

From DANIEL GRISWOLD, Cato@Liberty,  27 Oct 2009

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