"Proponents of the theory – who include nearly all economists for centuries, living and dead, along with numerous fakeonomists from think tanks and elsewhere and most major newspaper editorialists and media pundits – insist that the freest possible global competition, fostered by the freest possible trade flows, will help produce the greatest possible global efficiencies and the best possible array of products and services. Here's my starting question: Why does it have to be global competition? Why can't it be purely domestic competition, especially in the case of the United States?"