Our readingWhat is a korrent?
Drawn from what George Monbiot said, then moved away from
tariffs Taxes on imports: whether they close a trade deficit, what they do to prices, and what they are really for.
Recalls holdingThe only thing worse than a world with the wrong international trade rules is a world with no trade rules at all.
Their words nowMy conversion came on the day I heard a speaker demand a cessation of most forms of international trade and then, in answering a question from the audience, condemn the economic sanctions on Iraq.
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Do you hold this korrent?Do you also believe this?
I hold this tooShared subject first, then similar wording. They may agree or disagree.