Free trade > Protectionism. Prove me wrong, pro tip: you can't
Not really. Trade is trade. it's a network of interconnected issues. Trade between native americans and europeans didn't work out so well for the native americans.
>>75845402
funny how the periods of regulation is labeled as the "golden years". apparently "free" trade is damn unstable, considering you're not actually adhering to the rules. bailouts are by no means consistent with "free" trade. those banks should have folded and taken your economy/country with it.
>>75845402
>Alan Jewspan quote on /pol/
time to fuck off where you came from
>>75845402
How do you expect to compete with billions of Indian and Chinese slaves?
>>75845402
> Trusting anything a Jew says.
No thanks.
If we COMPLETELY cut off trade, we could achieve full employment with proper policies. But that's not something they want to do. Triggering a trade war would probably hurt us, but that's probably not going to happen. They need us more than we need them.
>>75845402
"Protectionism" is inherently natural to the human nature. A human is a ζῷον πoλιτιkόν, a political animal as Aristotle already stablished two fucking milennia ago. Laws and rules and hierarchy are inherent to the human existence.
Liberals, capitalists, libtards and anarchist are just jewish bullshitery to destroy our christian societies and civilization. Marxism and socialism are just controlled oposition.
>>75845821
>Liberals, capitalst, libtards
*Meant liberals (classical), capitalists and lolbertarians.
>this will do something and it will cause something to happen
>worth quoting despite no explanation as to why either will do that
>>75845402
Free trade will only work if everyone agreed. As long as China continues to currency manipulate, trade will be a net harm for the US. One solution is forcing countries to trade in something that is more sound than Fiat paper, like gold.
>>75845479
Because native Americans suck at economics, and were eventually proven good for nothing save the land they occupied.
>>75846780
>As long as China continues to currency manipulate, trade will be a net harm for the US.
Because?
Reminder that under free trade and deregulation you are one currency devaluation away from total financial collapse
>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crisis_of_1982
>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008–11_Icelandic_financial_crisis
reminder that free trade increases unemployment and decreases quality of life for the poor while enriching the ultra-rich
>http://www.epi.org/blog/naftas-impact-workers/
>http://www.cfr.org/trade/naftas-economic-impact/p15790
reminder that free trade removes domestic manufacturing and makes you dependent on your own economic rivals
meanwhile, limited protectionism stops all this from happening while still allowing for global trade - when it benefits the people
>>75845402
Short term protectionism is fine. Giving say, five years for your domestic businesses to set up, learn skills, build up experience and become competitive is necessary if you don't want to throw local startups to more competitive overseas firms. Then you remove said measures and let your local businesses compete. That is, after all, how the East Asian economies became successful. The US economy could very well do with a short 5-10 year period of protectionism to effect structural change to its industry to become more efficient, and train a higher skilled workforce with a greater emphasis on research/services/quality. This would help challenge the cheap and relatively unskilled labour in other parts of the world.
Of course, with the shortish election cycles in the liberal west no politician would want to withdraw comfortable protectionist policies because it'll make their electorate upset.
>>75845402
The right time demands the right policy. Now is the time for protectionism.
>>75845402
Free trades a fine idea, too bad we don't have anything like that. We have managed trade, strangled by regulations written by corporations that over extended themselves, made bad choices, and would be swiftly insolvent if they didn't invest in a protectionist policy of buying out our leaders and strangling potential competition out existence. How long would a true free trade treaty really need to be? We, the United States agree to trade freely without tariff, at market value, goods and services with country x. Done
>>75850469
Yes, it's not real free trade. For example the recent tpp negotiation leak. American food industry would get access to european market and the european car industry would get better access to the american market. Protectionism is built into these agreements by the corporations. The european car industry wants to keep europe as it's own protected territory. This is not free trade, each side has it's own special interest group that would reap all the benefits while the cost would be imposed on other industries.
