Bunch of stuff around about tariffs. The Europeans got busted on planes & MS on PC's. Bottom line is that this global economy thing is really a series of treaties and trade agreements that are almost impossible to get out of.

Our trade thing started to go wrong during Eisenhower's administration and has progressed down the road through both R & D presidents.

The US economy is large enough to tell all to take a hike and tariff up. Jobs would be created and lost in this but exporting states like Washington would be in the dirt and I read once that it would add about 30% to the cost of living.

As to NAFTA the only thing Pat Buchanan ever said that I agreed with was that NAFTA only worked when US wages were the same as Mexico's. I don't think he envisioned a massive wage increase in Mexico.