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I have read the ‘The Wealth of Nations’ and it says nothing to address mercantilism, currency manipulations and product dumping. The book is a fine book for the topics it deals with but most of the arguments in it are based on the premise of “fair trade” due to competitive of geographic advantage. I understand why it was written this way because involving the additional factors of government market manipulation and mercantilism would muddy the picture of why trade is necessary and advantageous.

Please try to give me a cogent argument as to why the American govenment should keep doing what it has been doing regarding trade for the past 50 years while every other nation has been engaging in predatory trade practices.

Please don’t continue to just send me a link to a 300 page books that I have already read and that you assumed that I was too stupid to have already done so.

So, in order to return your condescending post in a similar fashion, I recommend that you stretch your limited perspective by reading ‘Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies’ by Jared Diamond, 1997