Mises Daily
Author:
Llewellyn H. Rockwell Jr.
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To understand the WTO requires this counter-intuitive insight: while purporting to advance free trade, it is actually its major threat. In the past, the loopy social reformers lobbying and protesting outside the WTO’s Seattle meetings had no forum and certainly no mechanism to use to advance their pet causes. The creation of the WTO in 1995, a