Sinking the USA? Free Trade Brought Down the Francis Scott Key Bridge

The real problem exposed by the collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore was free-trade, financialization lunacy.

Consider: most U.S. bridges that cross U. S. harbor entrances were built in the 1980's or much earlier.  Yet even in the 1980's, the largest container ships built were Panamax vessels with a capacity of 65,000 – 80,000 deadweight tons (DWT)*.  Today, container ships are humongous, and stacked into the sky!  They have a capacity of up to 240,000 DWT, triple the size.