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18 Mar 2017, 4:48 pm

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/18/business/group-of-20-summit-us-trade.html?_r=0


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19 Mar 2017, 7:01 pm

If their views on bathing come from the same time period as their grasp of international economics, the location may have frightened the American delegation. Baden-Baden, the city so nice they named it twice.


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19 Mar 2017, 7:07 pm

That's utter nonsense since many of these countries have protectionist policies themselves, the G20 capitulated on the language because they're getting the message that the US will no longer be taken advantage of.

Should of never opened up trade with China, that and the signing of NAFTA has destroyed the American middle class.



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19 Mar 2017, 7:33 pm

Mercantilism, pre-Adam Smith


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