The Effects of Isolationism on the Global Economy

I'm not particularly optimistic in this country right now, because I can see the effects of isolationism in our politics. When you have a more isolationist top down, strong man outlook, often the systems that are meant to constrain greed, to constrain lies, they start to give way to the pressure of power. This isn't the first golden era of fraud; it's simply history repeating itself. So part of this is serendipitous. We're seeing hundreds of years of history compressed into a year. Rapid change in technological development. And when you have lots of money flowing in and no regulations, no police officers in the beat, right, you're going to have fraud