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Forbes warned that without active leadership, the country might not take advantage of the favorable economic conditions existing today and might replicate the isolationist tendencies that marked much of the post-World...
...extreme tardiness in reporting on the drug havens that many eastern Caribbean countries have become. The story simply reiterated what many of us islanders have long known: these islands are America's unprotected flank. Long-term neglect of their welfare, whether through budgetary restraints or through myopic, reactionary and isolationist policies, will only harm the most vital assets of the U.S., its people. ORVILLE RAWLINS Commerce, Texas
Buchanan, who claimed a narrow victory in New Hampshire, was looking this week to take advantage of the split in the more moderate conservative vote between Dole and Alexander to push his more radical, isolationist agenda...
Buchanan insists he's not an economic isolationist. He just wants to identify essential industries and protect them selectively, on the model of the import quotas that Ronald Reagan imposed on Japanese cars. But among economists, an otherwise squabbling breed, there's something like a consensus that for the great majority of American workers, free trade is a long-term boon that delivers better bargains on consumer goods and boosts demand for the products of America's fast-growing, high-wage export industries. More important factors in holding down wages are automation, sluggish growth in productivity and consumer demand...
...political spectrum is circular," DeSimone said. "Buchanan's economic policy is a protectionist policy, isolationist in nature, and that's not a part of the Republican party...