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Comments on: Please President Obama, stand up for my nations freedom to trade http://www.tvhe.co.nz/2009/03/09/please-president-obama-stand-up-for-my-nations-freedom-to-trade/ The Visible Hand in Economics Tue, 10 Mar 2009 23:45:58 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Matt Nolan http://www.tvhe.co.nz/2009/03/09/please-president-obama-stand-up-for-my-nations-freedom-to-trade/#comment-17921 Tue, 10 Mar 2009 23:45:58 +0000 http://www.tvhe.co.nz/?p=3130#comment-17921 @Bernard Hickey

I guess that is the problem with bilateral trade agreements. However, if it isn’t in the nations interest we could have just rejected it right – implying that if we take on the agreement it should still be better than no agreement.

]]> By: Matt Nolan http://www.tvhe.co.nz/2009/03/09/please-president-obama-stand-up-for-my-nations-freedom-to-trade/#comment-17920 Tue, 10 Mar 2009 23:45:04 +0000 http://www.tvhe.co.nz/?p=3130#comment-17920 @goonix

I don’t know – he is a strange type of libertarian isn’t he?

]]> By: Kimble http://www.tvhe.co.nz/2009/03/09/please-president-obama-stand-up-for-my-nations-freedom-to-trade/#comment-17897 Tue, 10 Mar 2009 01:13:32 +0000 http://www.tvhe.co.nz/?p=3130#comment-17897 “An FTA with America would have simply given US lobbyists a chance to destroy Pharmac…”

Would they destroy Pharmac? I mean, this is the administration that is seriously considering fixing pharmaceutical prices at the “world minimum*” and allowing the import of counterfeit medicines.

*set the max price in the US to be the lowest price bargained with overseas consumers.

]]> By: Bernard Hickey http://www.tvhe.co.nz/2009/03/09/please-president-obama-stand-up-for-my-nations-freedom-to-trade/#comment-17893 Mon, 09 Mar 2009 09:26:45 +0000 http://www.tvhe.co.nz/?p=3130#comment-17893 Matt,

Obama did us all a favour. An FTA with America would have simply given US lobbyists a chance to destroy Pharmac, to restrict our Internet and to block Fonterra from America. Lobbyists spent US$3.2 bln on lobbying Congress last year. Bilateral deals like this just give the Americans a chance to pick off small trading nations one by one with a patchwork of unfair trading rules written by lobbyists.
We should concentrate on good multilateral deals which are less vulnerable to the sort of divide and rule that the lobbyists love.
Here’s my view http://www.interest.co.nz/ratesblog/index.php/2009/03/09/barack-obama-has-done-us-a-favour/

cheers
Bernard

]]> By: goonix http://www.tvhe.co.nz/2009/03/09/please-president-obama-stand-up-for-my-nations-freedom-to-trade/#comment-17892 Mon, 09 Mar 2009 09:13:35 +0000 http://www.tvhe.co.nz/?p=3130#comment-17892 Yeah I would have. He wouldn’t have ruined the chance for our FTA!

]]> By: Matt Nolan http://www.tvhe.co.nz/2009/03/09/please-president-obama-stand-up-for-my-nations-freedom-to-trade/#comment-17891 Mon, 09 Mar 2009 08:11:44 +0000 http://www.tvhe.co.nz/?p=3130#comment-17891 @goonix

😀

According to the quiz you would have voted Barr, and I would have voted Nader:

http://www.tvhe.co.nz/2008/10/30/political-quiz-part-deux-obama-vs-mccain/

]]> By: goonix http://www.tvhe.co.nz/2009/03/09/please-president-obama-stand-up-for-my-nations-freedom-to-trade/#comment-17890 Mon, 09 Mar 2009 07:59:46 +0000 http://www.tvhe.co.nz/?p=3130#comment-17890 Yep, that’s why I said ‘one of’. 😛

]]> By: Matt Nolan http://www.tvhe.co.nz/2009/03/09/please-president-obama-stand-up-for-my-nations-freedom-to-trade/#comment-17889 Mon, 09 Mar 2009 06:36:01 +0000 http://www.tvhe.co.nz/?p=3130#comment-17889 @goonix

Is another reason the fact that your not American?

]]> By: Matt Nolan http://www.tvhe.co.nz/2009/03/09/please-president-obama-stand-up-for-my-nations-freedom-to-trade/#comment-17888 Mon, 09 Mar 2009 06:35:09 +0000 http://www.tvhe.co.nz/?p=3130#comment-17888 @agnitio

And you love every second of it 😉

]]> By: Matt Nolan http://www.tvhe.co.nz/2009/03/09/please-president-obama-stand-up-for-my-nations-freedom-to-trade/#comment-17887 Mon, 09 Mar 2009 06:34:52 +0000 http://www.tvhe.co.nz/?p=3130#comment-17887 @rauparaha

I suppose trade is like a prisoner’s dilemma – and he’s just playing a dominant strategy 🙁

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