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Editors Note: Economist Dean Baker is the author of the new book,聽 Rigged: How Globalization and the Rules of the Modern Economy Were Structured to Make the Rich Richer. Most educated people like to think of themselves as supporters of free trade. After all, everyone who has been through Economics 101 knows that tariffs and other trade barriers slow growth and encourage waste and corruption. Therefore, we should all want to see as few barriers as possible obstructing trade.While there are some issues that make the story a bit more comp stanley cup licated than the Econ 101 version, as a general rule we will benefit from having lower barriers to trade. This fact should cause all right-thinking people to be very upset about the protectionist barriers that artificially inflate the earnings of doctors in the United States.READ MORE: Column: How intellectual property rules help the rich and hurt the poorMost people are proba stanley cup bly not aware of the extraordinary level of protectionism that benefits doctors and, to a lesser extent, other highly paid professionals in our own country. A long list of trade agreements over the last 60 years has reduced or eliminated most of the tariffs and trade barriers on manufactured goods. This has led to a surge in imports, which has had major consequences for the U.S. labor market. But there has been no comparable effort to reduce the barriers that keep fore stanley cup ign professionals from working in the United States.Under the current regulatory structure, foreign-traine Vygj Trump reopens a seemingly settled debate on video games and violence
WASHINGTON When it comes to climate science, two of the three Democratic presidential candidates are A students, while most of the Republican contenders are flunking, according to a panel of scientists who reviewed candidates ; comments.At the request of The Associated Press, eight climate and biological scientists graded for scientific accuracy what a dozen top candidates said in debates, interviews and tweets, using a 0 to 100 scale.To try to eliminate possible bias, the candidates ; comments were stripped of names and given randomly generated numbers, so the professors would not know who made each statement they were grading. Also, the scientists who did the grading were chosen by professional scientific societies.Former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton had the highest average score at 94. Three scientists did not assign former Maryland Gov. Martin O ;Malley a score, saying his statements mostly were about policy, which they could not grade, instead of checkable science.Two used similar reasoning to skip grading New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie and one did the same for businesswoman stanley cup Carly Fiorina. Republican Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas had the lowest score, an average of 6. All eight put Cruz at the bottom of the class.This individu yeezy al understands less about science and climate change than the average kindergartner, Michael Mann, a Pennsylvania State U yeezy niversity meteorology professor, wrote of Cruz statements. That sort