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SID 0030 Free Trade Doesn't Work - Part 1
Stocks-in-Depth
English - January 01, 2017 05:00 - 39 minutes - 31.4 MB - ★★★★ - 9 ratingsInvesting Business News Business News competitiveanalysis investing analysis contrarian equityresearch financialmodel garp growth investment investmentresearch Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
History is replete with unanticipated events: Pearl Harbor, the dismantling of the Berlin Wall, the 2008 credit meltdown, and now the improbable ascendance of Donald Trump to America’s highest office. Yet there are many who previse change, but whose ideas are so unorthodox that they are never see the light of day until after the fact. With this in mind, Stocks-in-Depth introduces a little known economist, Ian Fletcher, and his 2010/2011 book, Free Trade Doesn’t Work: What Should Replace It and Why, in this four-part podcast. In Part 1, we present the last chapter of his tome, The End of the Free Trade Coalition, an analysis of political cycles going back to 2004 which in fact strongly presaged that Mr. Trump might sweep the electoral college in 2016 on the basis of appealing to workers displaced by nearly two decades of free trade agreements and their consequences.