Ian Fletcher - What Trump 2.0 Trade and Industrial Policy Should Look Like

My guest today is Ian Fletcher who is one of the leading academic critics of free trade in the United States today. Ian is on the advisory board of the Coalition for a Prosperous America and is the author or co-author of many books including Free Trade Doesn’t Work, The Conservative Case against Free Trade, and most recently Industrial Policy for the United States. https://prosperousamerica.org/advisory-board/ian-fletcher/ https://www.amazon.com.au/stores/author/B003BDMOEI We discuss among other things: - Who is going to be in charge of trade and industrial policy in Trump 2.0 - What the impact of Trump trade policy on Australia is likely to be - What trade and industrial policy means for the USD and for currencies - How industrial policy can be done poorly and how to avoid some of the downsides - What Australia's trade policy should be like going forward - How to determine what goods you need to produce locally and which (if any) you can be comfortable importing And much more