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Free Trade Is Dead
- SlipperySlope 10y agoIn some possible world, a US president Trump and congress should impose a 50% tariff on imported goods, services and intellectual property, in steps, over a five year period. BOOM.
- mathattack 10y agoBoom there go a bunch of trade dependent jobs, or Boom here come higher prices?
- Nihilartikel 10y agoBOOM goes the dynamite.
- ZeroGravitas 10y agoInteresting. I've never heard this "America doing the world a favor" version of free trade. The story usually told is "big corporations using political levers to open markets and make lots of money by taking advantage of weak governments". Many of those corporations are American. But of course, what's good for American corporations, and the people who run them, may not be what's good for America as a whole, or specificaly the workers.