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# NAFTA & Wal-Mart Create Inequality... Sort Of
- URL: https://www.kevinmeyer.com/nafta-wal-mart/
- Published: 2008-08-02T04:17:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-05-09T18:53:48.000Z
- Author: Kevin Meyer
- Tags: Organizations & Policy, #Migrated-1752356847400, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2025-07-12 14:48

From Don Boudreaux over at Cafe Hayek, reprinting his letter to *The Washington Post*,

> *Rep. Frank and Mr. Dionne ought to study recent research by the University of Chicago's Christian Broda and John Romalis. These scholars find that official measures of income distribution - which do show increasing inequality in recent years - greatly overstate inequality because they fail to account for the differential impacts of trade and big-box retailing on the purchasing power of the poor relative to that of the rich.* 
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> *Data from 1994 through 2005 show that trade with China along with the retailing efficiencies of Wal-Mart have lowered the prices of the goods that poor people buy much more than they've lowered the prices of the goods that rich people buy.*

Evil Wal-Mart! Evil globalization! There should be a law...!