Global trade growth is lackluster, so why all the controversy?
Global trade growth is lackluster, so why all the controversy?
The global economy in which we all live and work has been blamed for a lot of things this election cycle. Too many factory jobs leaving the country and not enough of our domestic-made products doing the same. To hear the politicians tell it, trade is a terrible thing. Turns out, though, trade has problems of its own. Binyamin Appelbaum writes of them in the New York Times and spoke with Kai Ryssdal.
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