For as long as I can remember the US has been preaching the mantra of free trade, and now finally the world has taken this idea to heart with the emergence of new global economic powers, most notably communist China. In this new economic era, the US is no longer the driving force and Americans don’t like the results. Guy La Roche at A Fistful Of Euros has much more on this and points to an interesting article by Fareed Zakaria at Newsweek.