Le Sueur peas, Wal-Mart briefs, free trade betrayals and a middle class coming apart

    Of tariffs, quotas, Utopian free market consumerism, the nation state, and the “most efficient allocation of resources” including those that used to weave in the cotton mills of my hometown Never thought much about tariffs, despite having matriculated my way to a B.A. in economics in a Southern hometown arguably ravaged by the lack of same for textiles. After all, my family worked for union | Read More »