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Article: World's big shots had better not forget the little guys: sole constant in motion these days seems to be economic and job change.(PACIFIC PERSPECTIVES)(protest against free trade agreement between US and South Korea )
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- San Diego Business Journal
- Article date:
- June 18, 2007
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There is no such thing as "free" trade. In truth, the phrase "free trade" is an ongoing oxymoron.
Indeed, you'd have to be pretty naive to think that anything of any importance in life was ever going to be cost-free. As the cliched saying goes: there's no such thing as a free lunch.
Nevertheless, this oft-used term, which you read about in the media all the time, flies out at us from the large closet of increasingly commonplace terms about globalization. "Free trade" hangs on the rack just next to "lower tariffs," "trading blocs," "trade negotiations" and the most dreaded of all contemporary global outfits: "outsourcing."
These terms get pulled ...