Barack Obama and free trade: Economic vandalism

You can be fairly sure that when a government slips an announcement out at nine o’clock on a Friday night, it is not proud of what it is doing. That is one of the only things that makes sense about Barack Obama’s decision to break a commitment he, along with other G20 leaders, reaffirmed last April: to avoid protectionist measures at a time of great economic peril. In every other way the president’s decision to slap a 35% tariff on imported Chinese ... Full Story »

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Fred Gatlin
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by Fred Gatlin - Sep. 19, 2009

This article assumes that free trade does not include any concerns about wage differences or sales below costs. Perhaps it is time to reconsider manufacturing as well as banking. Perhaps addressing an issue on Friday afternoon is intended to give journalism time more time to think broadly.

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