45(P) - Free Trade, From Ricardo to Trump ft. Zach Carter (Patreon)

Zach Carter (@ZachDCarter) is HuffPost's Senior Political Economy Reporter, working out of Washington D.C. His story, "Swiped: Banks, Merchants and Why Washington Doesn't Work for You," written with Ryan Grim, was included in the Columbia Journalism Review's compilation Best Business Writing 2012. We go back to the founding mythology of free trade and the foundations of economics. Keynes view of international trade as distinct from modern wonkery. Milton Friedman and apartheid-onomics, Bill Clinton and AIDS drugs. What is differnet about US trade policy under Trump and what is consistent? What to expect from China?