New Mexico interest rates on loans and credit cards can go as high as 175% but the idea of an limit on loan interest rates, like the idea of rent control or any arbitrary "minimum wages", goes against rigid "free trade" ideology.

I don't know how many people know that the main countries of the British orbit are discussing creating an ANglo-centric customs union, it seems to me to provide cover for the dismantlement of the UK's popular NHS. (Which they put under a cloud by leaving the EU. In all the commotion the fact that GATS prevents countries from subsidizing services in competition with corporate suppliers of said services got completely ignored.