Outsourcing/Free Trade

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when was that ?
ha ha you must be on different drugs than me

well it would not be the first time you have been wrong.
me american ? i dont think so

You said that you held positions with the US government in defense and that you had access to higher level documents, now, perhaps I did jump to a conclusion there, however, the possibility that you are not an American sounds slight given that information.

BTW do you trade in currency?

Me? I do not. I do read about currency traders somewhat.

Why do you not use your vast knowledge.
Seriously, it's easy. I know jack-sh** and show profit.

This demeans every person that actually was enslaved in the slave trade. It also misses the point of the actual forced labor that goes on in China, which is rather irregular, but does still does occur. It is not however Americans who are doing the enslaving of Chinese prisoners but the Chinese communist party leadership. The question is whether or not America is make that problem worse or better, and the morality of trading with such a regime (this assumes the objection is not against free trade generally).

A legitimate argument can be made regarding trade with China. I myself opposed most favored nation status with China (although I feel the consequences of revoking it would negate the benefits). However, it must be noted, that China before free trade was in far more dilapidated condition then it was now. It was essentially a nation of labor camps before the economic (rather then political) reforms of Deng Xiaoping, and his successors. Since then, especially along the coastline, China has experienced a economic surge that has allowed a middle class to develop. These reforms (forced labor not being a reform), which have included selling off state owned properties, have been denounced by many on the far-left as "capitalist" and ruining the "classless society" and the "benefits" of socialism that Mao-Tse Tung had created (although China maintains much of it's socialist centralist structure, and only recently added property rights to it's constitution), are precisely what has brought China out of the stark poverty it used to maintain.

I have recently heard of a noted economist who has attacked the benefits free trade, however, you can take this however you want. I am not getting heavily involved other than for clarity and informational purposes.

Why not? It doesn't seem like the best choice at this point. I probably could take advantage of more investment opportunities I suppose, I would rather do something with more stability and needing less expertise at this point though but I might look into that or other measure later. Usually the currency trade is done by institutional investors anyway.

Noted (ie: I could very well have been wrong).

Nah you can trade online. They recently changed US gambling laws, there are ways around it. But it has affected liquidity a lot.
How about the financial spreads? That's what i do. You can start off with pennies, i mean cents. So long as you don't go mental after a loss, fix yourself an amount you dont mind losing.
Its good fun.

What do people think about outsourcing/free trade? Is it good? Is it bad? Is it something that one isn't concerned about? Is it a new form of imperialism? Is it the world's savior? Pick the option that you see as most true.

Well, id say it's about 90% of the game. You can read all the books you want, and most have read them. But they still do their brains.
If you are aspie, then you may be like me and very logical with no emotional attachment ( especially to money, i mean that's ridiculous). Let these things work for you.