Oren Cass
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818 appearances
4 recordings
3 series
first heard Nov 2025
last heard 3 Jun
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And economists just absolutely denied it.
That's just not true.
Free trade works well for everybody.
I think the two other problems though, one is they always just assume that trade would be balanced.
If a whole bunch of capital heads to China to make something cheaper in China, that's okay.
There's going to be something else that we make here now to trade for the stuff from China.
It was a sort of rock solid principle.
It was actually Paul Krugman wrote a famous essay talking about what should we teach undergraduates about economics.
One of the core things was trade deficits are self-correcting.
So you can't have a long-term – I was on a podcast with him last year and mentioned this to him.
He didn't remember, of course.
He must have been very excited to hear about it.
And I said, no, no.
I'm always ready to read the quote as needed.
And he said, well, that was naive.
I was like, well – Oh, OK.
I wish you hadn't written the accompanying essay suggesting that people who could not understand your economics should be ridiculed because ridicule is more powerful than actually trying to argue with them.
Yeah.
I'm aware of that as well.
That's my Martin Bailey.
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