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Reason
Eric Boehm

Globalization Made Howard Lutnick a Billionaire. Now He's Railing Against It as Trump's Commerce Chief.

The first year of the second Trump administration has been defined by an economic and foreign policy that treats the movement of people and goods around the globe as not merely suspect but actively harmful to Americans' well-being.

In January, Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick set the bar for demonstrating how bizarre—and wrong—that logic is. While addressing the World Economic Forum's annual gathering in Davos, Switzerland, Lutnick declared that the decades-long project of economic liberalism had been, in fact, a terrible mistake.

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