What's Your Global Market Price?
Ann Grackin - October 20, 2004

Introduction

"The United States has nothing to fear from commercial engagement with the rest of the planet." Who said this? Alexander Hamilton, the first Secretary of the Treasury of the United States, and probably the one individual most responsible for the financial and commercial system we have lived under for over 220 years. He went on to say, "The maxims of the United States have hitherto favored a free intercourse with all the worlds. They have conceived that they had nothing to fear from the unrestrained competition of commercial enterprise and have only desired to be admitted to it upon equal terms"...