The Trade Deficit: Is It a Problem or Not?

Monday, March 9, 2015

Speakers

Robert A. Blecker

Professor, Department of Economics, American University

Daniel J. Ikenson

Director, Herbert A. Stiefel Center for Trade Policy Studies, Cato Institute

Derek Scissors

Resident Scholar, American Enterprise Institute

Robert D. Atkinson

President, Information Technology and Innovation Foundation

Presider

Edward Alden

Bernard L. Schwartz Senior Fellow, Council on Foreign Relations

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