Quick Thought on Globalization as We Know It

Jim Tankersley had an interesting piece arguing that the Brexit vote ended "globalization as we know it." I am less optimistic on that front. The folks who profit from the current path of globalization are incredibly powerful and very effective at working around democracy and things like that. But that aside, the article had an interesting graph that caught my attention. 

The graph shows the ratio of international trade in goods and services to GDP over the last two decades. After rising...