This is the Kedu Daily Podcast for Tuesday, August 6th, 2019. I'm Caleb Brown.

She may well be the only candidate on the Democratic side to make such a clear declaration of intent

with respect to trade. Still, Elizabeth Warren's trade plans will make it more difficult to get new trade agreements and liberalize trade.

What will make new trade deals harder to get?

New demands that she would like to see inserted into those agreements

and new processes for arriving at those deals.

Cato's Dan Iconsen and Simon Lester discuss the trade priorities of Elizabeth Warren.

What has Elizabeth Warren said about Donald Trump with respect to trade?

Well, I'm not sure that she's directed her comments at Trump as much as she has come down with a checklist of issues that sort of appeal to progressives about trade.

Progressives have been skeptical about trade and trade agreements

thinking that they only benefit big multinational corporations and the

rich at the expense of working Americans, that they exploit the environment, that labor around the world

is exploited because of agreements that are struck based on the input of U.S. and other foreign multinationals.

So she is trying to harness this dissatisfaction,

this discord, and come up with the plan for making trade agreements with countries that are above average

with respect to human rights and labor rights and a variety of other things.

And, you know, Simon and I think have found that there are exactly about zero countries in the world

with whom the United States could negotiate a trade agreement

under those conditions.

And even the United States wouldn't qualify under her conditions.

I guess the theories if she were present they would qualify.

But yeah, I mean she's's really I mean one thing I like

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