Comments on: You’re Speaking My Language http://informedspeculation.com/2006/11/20/youre-speaking-my-language/ Refunds Cheerfully Given To All Who Disagree Fri, 10 Feb 2012 06:53:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Mark http://informedspeculation.com/2006/11/20/youre-speaking-my-language/comment-page-1/#comment-143337 Mark Mon, 20 Nov 2006 22:59:53 +0000 http://decision08.net/2006/11/20/youre-speaking-my-language/#comment-143337 jpe, I don't think the peace part is wrong...it's a fact that countries with close economic ties are far less likely to go to war...just look at North Korea and China!... jpe, I don’t think the peace part is wrong…it’s a fact that countries with close economic ties are far less likely to go to war…just look at North Korea and China!…

]]> By: Andy http://informedspeculation.com/2006/11/20/youre-speaking-my-language/comment-page-1/#comment-143329 Andy Mon, 20 Nov 2006 22:45:07 +0000 http://decision08.net/2006/11/20/youre-speaking-my-language/#comment-143329 And watch for the corresponding rise in inflation & cost of living. What knuckleheads -- "we demand worker's rights or it's nada" is not a zero-sum game. he only way to improve those 'poor' workers is to give them trade so that their standard of living will rise and in turn increase their clout to eventually enjoy the same rights that these knuckleheads take for granted. It won't happen overnight simply by wishing it so and certainly won't happen if they just up and take their marbles home. Fair Trade? Yeah, right. Earth to Socialist Donks & Rockefella Repubs, Grow up and get a clue!! And watch for the corresponding rise in inflation & cost of living. What knuckleheads — “we demand worker’s rights or it’s nada” is not a zero-sum game. he only way to improve those ‘poor’ workers is to give them trade so that their standard of living will rise and in turn increase their clout to eventually enjoy the same rights that these knuckleheads take for granted. It won’t happen overnight simply by wishing it so and certainly won’t happen if they just up and take their marbles home.

Fair Trade? Yeah, right. Earth to Socialist Donks & Rockefella Repubs, Grow up and get a clue!!

]]> By: jpe http://informedspeculation.com/2006/11/20/youre-speaking-my-language/comment-page-1/#comment-143325 jpe Mon, 20 Nov 2006 22:38:09 +0000 http://decision08.net/2006/11/20/youre-speaking-my-language/#comment-143325 I'm a free trade firebrand, but the editorial slips on the same "aggregate fallacy" (to coin a phrase) that plagued discussions of the domestic economy. Just because the economy as a whole is doing better doesn't mean that everyone, or even most people, are doing better. Same applies to the gains from free trade: the gains are broadly distributed, while the losses are heavily concentrated (not coincidentally in rust belt states where protectionist Dems did quite well). And the whole bit about peace is really too silly to even go in to. I’m a free trade firebrand, but the editorial slips on the same “aggregate fallacy” (to coin a phrase) that plagued discussions of the domestic economy. Just because the economy as a whole is doing better doesn’t mean that everyone, or even most people, are doing better. Same applies to the gains from free trade: the gains are broadly distributed, while the losses are heavily concentrated (not coincidentally in rust belt states where protectionist Dems did quite well).

And the whole bit about peace is really too silly to even go in to.

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