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Politics : Politics for Pros- moderated

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To: Bill Ulrich who wrote (212010)7/17/2007 2:38:55 PM
From: TimF  Read Replies (1) of 793991
 
The gist I get from his ronpaullibrary.com and ronpaul2008.com sites is that he envisions the world marketplace as a sort of ... "farmers' market" where you simply walk down the street and pay Joey Bushelobeets two bucks for his basket o' goods. That worked reasonably well in the past -- like the Molasses/Rum/Slaves triangle a few years ago. Myopic in this millenium, IMO. The best "free trade" marketplace is ... a managed one.

If its myopic in this millenium its mainly as a matter of politics. Your unlikely to get political support for truely unfettered trade, but personally I agree with him to the extent that I'd prefer free trade without the "management". I don't think the best free trade is "managed trade", and most its the best free trade system that is politically achievable at the moment.
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