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Person, you can't be happy to see donald trump talking so much about tariffs and levying so many tariffs, specifically urging certain businesses to be favored. this seems a very corporatist, mercantilist, protectionist approach to economics rather than the free trade stuff you've been writing about for 20 years. >> when you're talking about a country that's protectionist and mercantilist, you're talking about china. for the last 25, 30 years, the united states has tried to nurture china along with a large and persistent trade deficit with them hoping this march toward free markets would lead t...