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  • America's New Jingoes (trade)

    10/08/2004 5:33:37 AM PDT · by OESY · 2 replies · 362+ views
    Wall Street Journal ^ | October 8, 2004 | GEORGE GILDER
    With markets at last recovering from the turn-of-the-century crash and the attacks of September 11, it is an opportune time to debate America's future in a rapidly changing world economy. America's establishment of liberal economists and media pundits, however, are joining in a cramped new nationalism that jeopardizes the future of American technology and prosperity. Like reactionary jingoes of the past, they are priming John Kerry with the delusional view that the U.S. and its workers are somehow victims of global trade and capital movements.... In a popular image, "Benedict Arnold CEOs" are seen to be offshoring factories and outsourcing...