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Wounded Bear

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2. FIFY

Reply to rjsquirrel (Reply #1)

Wed Jun 29, 2016, 07:16 AM

Jun 2016

Globalization of trade can have a massive net positive effect on national wealth and rising incomes.

The devil is in the details. Blanket statements like yours serve no one. Countries need to ensure that the benefits are shared by those at all income levels, and not just those at the top.

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FIFY Wounded Bear Jun 2016 #2

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Obvious, Mr Squirrel: free trade makes the world better Albertoo Jun 2016 #4

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The 2008 crisis has propped up demagoguery, including on the Left Albertoo Jun 2016 #6

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I'm not sure current rules allow you the last sentence Albertoo Jun 2016 #8

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A-friggin'-men! Surya Gayatri Jun 2016 #12

"That's gonna pop some heads at DU..." Waiting for him to be tossed under the cliched bus any time. Surya Gayatri Jun 2016 #11

I love your joke Albertoo Jun 2016 #13

A bourgeois, if ever there was one. Surya Gayatri Jun 2016 #15

Damn that Karl Marx fat cat :) Albertoo Jun 2016 #16

Ask Piketty and he'll tell you: Globalism is not the problem; income inequality is. . . nt Bernardo de La Paz Jun 2016 #10

Yep, he said exactly that in a CBC interview a while back daleo Jun 2016 #14