Free ports are problematic because they can create zones that are essentially free of democratic and economic controls.

“I have always felt is what this whole Freeport thing Charter City movement is about and it is interesting to me that private eye seems to be virtually solo looking into this and of coming up with some absolutely eye-popping Revelations which the rest of the media just seem to ignore”

Free ports risk environmental harm by circumventing regulations and often fail to drive genuine growth by merely displacing economic activity.

“a smarter move is if you've got a real problem with over regulation is to get rid of that regulation across the whole country so the economy the whole country can grow rather than just doing it in these isolated geographical areas”