I count 7 "free trades" in this one. In all cases, the word "free" provides no information. In fact, as BTP readers know, it is a distortion. Maybe the paper needed to fill space. Perhaps in the absence of free trade in journalistic services, its protected reporters are paid by the word.
--Dean Baker
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