[central_va]

I really have a keen understanding of the economic situation "free" trade has gotten us in. Capitalism without patriotism and morals is a recipe for disaster. They don't teach the later in B-school. The dogma is all govt's and systems are equal.

Economics does not operate in a political vacuum.

[dennisw]

Economics does not operate in a political vacuum.

And high IQ NE Asians (Japan China Taiwan Korea) play the game this way. They are not free traders. They are mercantilists who laugh at Anglo-sphere delusions about free trade and exploit them to win! Only chumps and brain washed college students believe free trade doctrines