If free and fair trade is to work well, it ought to be raising the quality of life and the level of wealth accumulation by people in these countries with whom we are about to enter into trading agreements. That is good for us, and it is good for them. Instead of us having to fight for it here, they ought to be fighting for it and insisting upon it on behalf of their own constituents.
Discussing the implications of free and fair trade agreements.
Share
More from Chris Dodd
I had hoped we'd get in the lame duck session to the ratification of the Colombian Free Trade Agreement and the Panamanian Free Trade Agreement.
The truth is that the catastrophe was years in the making caused by regulatory negligence and Wall Street gambling.
Maybe we ought to be spending a little more time looking at the relationships at that level.
In fact, it was the uncertainty inherent in a nontransparent and reckless financial system that made Dodd-Frank necessary in the first place.
Other voices in this conversation
