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The death of free trade?

…on China, beginning with the first Trump Administration. “Free trade ideology once aligned with America’s economic and security interests. After World War II, open markets were good for domestic industry…

Liquidity

…volume.” I’m fairly sure the word originally described assets. Now it is often used to modify markets so thick markets are called “liquid markets.” This is actually fairly important, since…

The Wrong Crisis

…half of their assets to market (which UBS Credit Suisse, Duetsche Bank and Goldman Sachs market more than half of their assets to market with Goldman Sachs over 75%). Sorry…