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Dec 13, 2024 | 
cato.org | Colin Grabow
Generated with ElevenLabs AI technology. My family spent Thanksgiving in New York City, where we did many of the usual tourist things such as a picture with Wall Street’s Charging Bull sculpture, ice skating in Central Park, and a (mercifully short) visit to Times Square. The first item on our sightseeing agenda, however, was the Statue of Liberty. Looking at the ferry that would transport us, I was struck by an underappreciated paradox.
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Nov 12, 2024 | 
cato.org | Scott Lincicome |Deirdre N. McCloskey |Colin Grabow
Cato Institute Vice President Scott Lincicome explains his team’s motivation behind the new Faces of Globalization video series and Cato’s ongoing Defending Globalization project. He also summarizes the series’ first three installments and the essential humanity of everyday commerce that just so happens to cross political borders.
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Oct 2, 2024 | 
catoeconomics.org | Colin Grabow
Some Americans may be surprised to learn (or perhaps not, given trillion-dollar budget deficits) that a federal law requires the government to pay inflated prices for many of the products it buys. Passed in 1933, the Buy American Act (BAA) grants, with some exceptions, a significant price preference to US-produced goods and materials in federal procurements.
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Sep 27, 2024 | 
cato.org | Colin Grabow
Some Americans may be surprised to learn (or perhaps not, given trillion-dollar budget deficits) that a federal law requires the government to pay inflated prices for many of the products it buys. Passed in 1933, the Buy American Act (BAA) grants, with some exceptions, a significant price preference to US-produced goods and materials in federal procurements.
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Sep 12, 2024 | 
nationalreview.com | Colin Grabow
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Sep 8, 2024 | 
cato.org | Colin Grabow
Redesigning the main pillars of U.S. maritime policy to comport with modern realities should be at the forefront of modernization. September 6, 2024 • Commentary This article appeared in War on the Rocks on September 6, 2024. U.S. maritime policy is a grievous failure. Whether evaluated in terms of effectively meeting national security requirements or bolstering the country’s economy, America can point to few successes.
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Sep 7, 2024 | 
hawaiifreepress.com | Colin Grabow
War on the Rocks: U.S. Maritime Policy Needs an Overhaul By Cato Foundation @ 4:21 PM :: 7 Views :: Jones Act U.S. Maritime Policy Needs an Overhaul by Colin Grabow, Cato Institute, War on the Rocks, September 6, 2024 (excerpt) …Although numerous metrics demonstrate the maritime industry’s descent into mediocrity, few capture it more starkly than the state of commercial shipbuilding. Despite American manufacturing and technological prowess, U.S. shipyards’ output in recent years has ranked...
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Aug 29, 2024 | 
cato.org | Colin Grabow
One of the more intriguing results of a recent Cato Institute–commissioned poll about trade and globalization was the respondents’ views on manufacturing. When asked whether the country would be better off if more Americans worked in the sector, 80 percent responded in the affirmative. Given widespread perceptions of American industrial decline—very much at odds with available evidence—that’s not entirely surprising.
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Aug 6, 2024 | 
nationalreview.com | Colin Grabow
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Aug 4, 2024 | 
hawaiifreepress.com | Colin Grabow
Jones Act is bad deal for Guam
by Colin Grabow, Grassroot Institute
The following article was published originally on July 31, 2024, in the Pacific Daily News on Guam.
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Perhaps no federal policy imposes a heavier burden on Guam than the protectionist shipping law known as the Jones Act.
Enacted in 1920, the law restricts the transportation of goods between U.S. ports to vessels that are flagged and built in the U.S. and mostly owned and crewed by Americans.
