Sarah Foster

Articles

11/01/1996 Free Market Sarah Foster

As the Cold War wound down, opinion elites discovered a new menace: "unfair trade practices." These are the subsidies, protectionist tariffs, and various regulations and business practices other countries use, which hamper the export of American goods.

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