Ep 53 Our 'The Jones Act Is Protectionist Garbage and Bad For Americans' Friend - ft. Colin Grabow

Why are Puerto Ricans buying liquid natural gas from the Russkies? Why are Hawaiian ranchers transporting cattle to the mainland with planes? Why is an Alaskan seafood company giving tons of fish a jaunt on 100 feet of rail track located entirely inside a Canadian port? To answer these absurd questions, the guys were thrilled to be joined by Colin Grabow, a policy analyst at the Cato Institute’s Herbert A. Stiefel Center for Trade Policy Studies and one of the authors of The Case Against the Jones Act. Together they discuss the Jones Act's origins, its many harms, why it remains in place, and beyond #EndTheJonesAct, what can be done about it? If you would like to learn more, Colin and his primarily anti-Jones Act thoughts can be found on Twitter @cpgrabow. For further readings and references, check out the following: Project on Jones Act Reform https://www.cato.org/project-jones-act-reform The Jones Act: A Burden America Can No Longer Bear https://www.cato.org/publications/policy-analysis/jones-act-burden-america-can-no-longer-bear The Case against the Jones Act https://www.cato.org/books/case-against-jones-act And as always, if you enjoyed this conversation and would like to hear others like it, be sure to like, review, and subscribe to us on your favorite podcast app. You can also follow us on Twitter at @NobodyDismal or email us at NobodyExpectsTheDismalScience@gmail.com. We promise to always respond, whether on-air or off.