Sunday Quick Hits

I'm just back from some business travel, and there's lots to mention, so let's get right to it:

• Ten months of Section 421 tariffs on Chinese tires produce nothing except higher domestic prices and increased imports from other countries.

• New Cato briefer: The Miscellaneous Tariff Bill: A Blueprint for Future Trade Expansion.

• New Heritage briefer: Targeting the Yuan: A Feel-Good but Futile Response.

• Op-ed: Why imports are a boon for the US economy (and another reason why Keynesianism is dumb).

• In response to Krugman's latest China currency column, monetary economist rightly asks if we can revoke PK's Nobel prize.

• Boeing-Airbus dispute: the EU strikes back.

• WSJ editorial board asks an obviously rhetorical question: does Obama or the USW run US trade policy?

• Yet another trade dispute over "green" subsidies: this time Japan goes after Canada's "feed-in tariffs" for renewable energy generation.  You were warned, people.  You were warned.

• Shocker: Dems' anti-china push is based on politics, not economics.

• Excellent NYT op-ed on how visa reform is critical to the future of US global competitiveness.  Me: something China is already doing, by the way.

• Journalist notices that US pols attack China's currency policies to "save American jobs," but they don't seem to care about those same jobs when they block Chinese investment in the United States.

• Breakthrough?  Iowa farmers starting to balk at taking government money.

That should keep you all busy for a while.