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Curious likens belief in “Free Trade” to “believing in Santa Claus“…….”Why? Because it was established in the stone-ages that the reasons why free trade doesn't work lie in its noble but eutopian assumptions”…. He concludes that rather than the “Biblical paradise” of free trade we should be “pursuing fair trade, which is far more realistic and achievable”.
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