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Alan Beattie Actual news at the G20: the TPP lurches forward

June 19, 2012 10:09 pm by Alan Beattie

Perhaps the only item of proper concrete news on Tuesday from the G20 in Mexico was that Canada (along with Mexico, announced yesterday) will be invited to join the nine-member Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade deal, writes Alan Beattie. Read more

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Posted in Foreign affairs, Global economy |

Alan Beattie Mitt Romney: Protectionist?

September 7, 2011 9:12 am by Alan Beattie

Some concern among Republicans about the anti-China belligerence in Mitt Romney’s big jobs speech on Tuesday. (Ironically it was Greg Mankiw, one of Romney’s economic advisers, who said one of the bravest and most sensible things on economics to come out of the Bush administration, and was forced to apologise for it.)  Read more

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Posted in US politics |