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Episode 87: Why Do We Even Have Trade Agreements, Anyway?

Words & Numbers

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The Importance of Free Trade in the Economy

This starts to sound heartless that we don't care about people who lose their jobs to foreign competition. And when you frame it properly, you realize that I don't have a right to a job. What do we do about the 55 year old who can't retool, can't reskill? That's an important question and something absolutely we should answer. It's a moral question, but it's not an economic question. We're out of time.

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