Free Trade Stories
Historical and contemporary stories on free trade.
How the (Trade) Winds Blow: My Life With Christopher Columbus "In 1492, Columbus sailed the ocean blue ..." the story goes. That voyage changed the course of global economic history--and the trajectory of my life. None of it would have been possible without the wind.
What Christopher Columbus Taught Me About Discovery "Columbus discovered America in 1492. But I discovered a good friend when I discovered you," so begins the farewell quote some now long-forgotten girl wrote in my sixth grade graduation yearbook. I soon learned Columbus' journey of discovery had much to teach me about life and death.
The Caribbean Book of the Dead In Haiti, the shadowy line between the living and the dead is both soft and permeable. The living and the dead communicate with each other through dreams. History and the dead have much to teach us about the way to live today.

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