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The pros and cons of free trade
48:02 - 48:50 (00:48)
The speaker shares their experience of studying economics where they learned about the efficiency created by free trade, but reflects on the necessary consideration of the distributional consequences because it affects who benefits and who loses. They also mention that American consumers have benefited from free trade while American producers have lost.
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