Can global trade be fair?

Quick aside: Have a look at this picture of Barack Obama on The Drudge Report and tell us what you think. It’s already spraking a war of words between his and Hillary’s campaigns…

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It’s Fair Trade Fortnight in the UK. Tate&Lyle has just announced all its sugar will be ‘fair trade’. But is the notion of global trade being ‘fair’ a realistic one? And should we even aspire to capitalism that is ‘fair’? Might trying to achieve that actually disrupt the market economies that some argue are the best way of providing for all of us?

Welcome Mr. Nader

He’s thrown his hat into the Presidential ring. Are you glad and will you support him?

Not so fair trade?

Here’s some of a press release we’ve been sent by the Adam Smith Institute. A new report claims to highlight ‘inconvenient truths about ‘Fair’ trade’. See if you agree with it…