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September 16, 2022
• John A. Burtka IV
Conservative Economics, Financialization
Don’t Trade on Me

America grew wealthy not from free trade, but behind some of the world’s most imposing protectionist barriers. In fact, the principal tradition of free trade one finds in American history was born in the Confederate South.

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