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Better Off Without NAFTA, Part 3: Mexico—Armed Rebellion, Mass Migration, Flat GDP

Getting Past the Propaganda We are routinely told that Mexico has grown into the “one of the more robust emerging economies with exports of about $1 billion a day”, more than 10 times what they were in 1994. CBC News, like Trump, thinks Mexico is “the big winner” of NAFTA. If it sounds improbable that […]

Better Off Without NAFTA, Part 2: Canada—Localized Profit, but a Net Outflow of Capital

In Part 1, details on trade and investment between Canada and the US were presented that showed the US has run surpluses in the trade in goods and services, and more investment came into the US from Canada than the other way around. Both of these have the effect of draining capital away from Canada. […]

And You Think You Have it Hard Now, Just Wait…

“Oh stop your complaining,” as a “recession” (read: depression) starts to work its way in, as stock markets fell the day the bailout bill was passed, as a day after the mainstream media finally started to admit the bailout would do little since root causes were not addressed (“Root causes? We’re Americans. We don’t do […]