Despite much hue and cry about it, governments have in fact imposed remarkably few trade barriers on imports.

The step from here to lamenting the high taxes spent on welfare for immigrants is a but a short one.

Otherwise, why would investors and speculators cry bloody murder whenever capital controls are mentioned as a possibility? If they really couldn t care less, then they shouldn t care at all.

Whenever Russia applies pressure, he immediately starts yelling about Moscow s ingratitude proclaiming that 10,000,000 Belarusians protect Russia from NATO s tanks.

I refused to be a commodity, a cheap article traded by the people of religion, politics and the media. I refuse to go back to running after gas canisters, waiting for electricity in the long winter nights, to the screaming and wailing of the political parties, and religious calcification. Gaza is a place of cheap talk and bombast.

CAMBRIDGE There was a dog that didn t bark during the financial crisis protectionism.