Some of my email correspondents and I exchange thoughts and links just about daily on subjects probably only interesting to ourselves and perhaps best kept to ourselves. One such topic is economics, and keeping in mind that that is one of the potential degree alternatives under consideration by Nik, here is an analysis that is a bit heady and long-winded but quite interesting and provocative, and now seems relevant to current concerns that we all have.
http://qz.com/840973/everything-we-thought-we-knew-about-free-trade-is-wrong/