I have never known much good done by those who affected to trade for the public good.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
The public good is in nothing more essentially interested, than in the protection of every individual's private rights.
There are some things that we value as a public good that the markets can't deliver, like clean air.
So there's always been this clash between what is the public good - that which belongs to all of us in common - and what can be exploited for a private interest.
I'm not opposed to free trade if it's fair trade. But I am opposed to bad trade deals.
All through history, there have always been movements where business was not just about the accumulation of proceeds but also for the public good.
When you're public, you're at the mercy of the markets. You can be doing extremely well, but if the markets are in the tank or your industry is in the tank, you don't get rewarded for it.
We don't think much about the up and down of the public market.
Nobody in this country realizes that cap-and-trade is a tax - and it's a great big one.
Governments have never learned anything from history, or acted on principles deducted from it.
No nation was ever ruined by trade.