When goods do not cross borders, soldiers will.

They will come to learn in the end, at their own expense, that it is better to endure competition for rich customers than to be invested with monopoly over impoverished customers.

And what is liberty, whose very name makes the heart beat faster and shakes the world? Is it not the union of all liberties - liberty of conscience, of education, of association, of the press, of travel, or labor, or trade?

That's the positive aspect of trade I suppose. The world gets stirred up together. That's about as much as I have to say for it.

The momentum higher in gold continues. The consensus in the market is that gold will trade to between $600/oz and $800/oz in 2006. The asset relocation into gold continues.

EU Trade Commissioner Peter Mandelson and Chinese Minister of Commerce Bo Xilai have almost reached consensus on the issue,