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Does Trade Harm National Security? (with Scott Lincicome)

Free Thoughts

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Is the United States Trying to Afford to Have Us Labor and Environmental Standards?

Well intentioned policies often have very bad a a i put it well, they have a lot of unintended consequences. And so what you cance, for example, is labor rules in us. Trade agreements being used by labor unions to block trade and to block competition with these countries. It's essentially pulling up the latter. You can maybe tweat some things at the margins here and there, but the reality is that you were going to cause a lot of pain for your own companies, your own consumers.

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