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Podcast: The Bill Walton Show
Episode: “When ‘Free Trade’ Does More Harm Than Good” with Robert Lighthizer
Description: For regular listeners, you know I like to take on complicated subjects, and try to make clear what’s at stake for all of us. In this episode the Bill Walton Show we take a another deep dive into one of the most complicated and contentious areas of economic policy: International trade. International trade negotiations are incredibly complex multilevel games—there are negotiations not just with America’s trading partners, but with Congress, domestic constituencies, and rival factions within the executive branch. There are sharp - almost theological - differences in how trade...