THE LEAD | FREE Trade? FAIR Trade?

THE LEAD | FREE Trade? FAIR Trade?

You say ‘toe-may-toe’ and I say ‘toe-mah-to’. I say ‘poe-tae-toe’ and you say ‘po-tah-toe.’ Both are vegetables, just pronounced differently. But the very way they are pronounced can incite a “spirited” argument. In some cases, VERY “spirited”. With the U.S. in the process of ‘re-jiggering’ the global trade structure two words have also caused quite a stir; FREE and FAIR. Those words are eliciting “discussions” that threaten global economic chao…