Hey, @WenzelEconomics! Please clean up this mess: https://t.co/aGgNM8pdSQ Our comprehensive chap-by-chap assessmnt: https://t.co/H18XP2z62Q— Dan Ikenson (@dikenson) August 15, 2016
This is some shoddy stuff. Do some research. https://t.co/H18XP2z62Q https://t.co/JfELcI33eQ— Dan Ikenson (@dikenson) August 15, 2016
My point is clear. Your sound bite tweet says you endorse. Re-read my post. I am aware of your long-form analyses. https://t.co/Yy5oLzGXNA— Robert Wenzel (@WenzelEconomics) August 15, 2016
My colleagues and I in the Cato Trade Center DO endorse. You imply that we didn't analyse. We did. Thoroughly. https://t.co/ZAFdk74865— Dan Ikenson (@dikenson) August 15, 2016
That's linked to in my post! Are you incapable of understanding my point? https://t.co/M0drlvbVyP— Robert Wenzel (@WenzelEconomics) August 15, 2016
Now this is a total reading comprehension problem, Where do I imply that you didn't analyze? https://t.co/lCTPAI63cE— Robert Wenzel (@WenzelEconomics) August 15, 2016
Your pt is that #TPP contains many bad provisions. Your other pt was to impugn us for not doing an analysis. We did. https://t.co/SIEgHLwUO3— Dan Ikenson (@dikenson) August 15, 2016
That's a complete distortion of what I wrote. https://t.co/NAL8PimBhO— Robert Wenzel (@WenzelEconomics) August 15, 2016
Your last paragraph. https://t.co/Q0a52IPgwI— Dan Ikenson (@dikenson) August 15, 2016
Certainly your last paragraph in the original post is fair comment. Back in the day, CEI was the libertarian Washington group delegated with the task of criticizing managed trade, while Cato always endorsed whatever was in the cards "on balance." I wonder if that is still the case.
ReplyDeleteI interviewed CEI about TPP two-plus years ago. They endorsed as well. The view was that on whole the TPP was a net-positive even though free trade is better than managed trade. CEI has (or had) someone working with the US Trade advisory committee.
ReplyDeleteThe explanation was that hey, this removes 11,000 tariffs and reduces regulations and greatly opens trade and if the US wasn't involved then US businesses would miss out.
However, both Cato and CEI are very aware of the cronyism and new regulations that have nothing to do with trade. For example, the US wants some of these impoverished countries to create their own version of the EPA and stricter labor regulations.