Protectionism will undercut any temporary benefits it provides with long-term damage and destruction.

Remarks to the 2007 Annual Conference of the Investment Adviser Association, Austin, Texas, April 26, 2007 ; "Many options would improve the fiscal fitness of our entitlement system and reduce the need for drastic action elsewhere in the federal budget. But let's be honest. These remedies work...

Remarks before the O'Neil Center for Global Markets and Freedom Conference, SMU Cox School of Business, Dallas, Texas, October 16, 2009. ; This morning, I will argue that a decline in trade flows, at least to some degree, was to be expected during this tumultuous period, the most severe global...

Remarks before the Australian Business Economists, Sydney, Australia, November 14, 2007. ; Our job has been made more complicated by globalization--the freer flow of goods, services, money, ideas and people across national borders. Its present incarnation owes a great deal to the revolution in...

Remarks before the Dallas Assembly, Dallas, Texas, May 22, 2006 ; "Our globalizing economy is not a vintage car. It is more like a 2006 BMW Z4 roadster, fully equipped and Bluetooth enabled. It is a very complex, highly integrated, technologically advanced and brilliantly engineered vehicle that...

Remarks at the Central Bank of Argentina, Buenos Aires, April 19, 2006 ; "My business contacts talk and act as if the globalization now under way will bring another decade of intense competition. This hothouse will enable--perhaps even force--businesses to keep productivity growth in the range...

Remarks before the Houston World Affairs Council, Houston, Texas, April 13, 2007 ; "We need new and better tools to help us determine just how globalization is affecting economies around the world, and how policymakers can reap benefits from these insights. Getting it right may well alter our...

2006 Streich Family Lectureship on Free Enterprise, Midwestern State University, Wichita Falls, Texas, April 4, 2006 ; "Globalization is almost surely part of the explanation of the decline in inflation and output volatility that we've seen in many countries in recent years."

Remarks for the National Association for Business Economics Panel Discussion at the 2006 Allied Social Science Associations Meeting, Boston, Massachusetts, January 6, 2006 ; "By spurring productivity and fomenting tectonic economic changes, globalization has acted as a tailwind for the...