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October 10, 2010

On Trade Wars & Currency Skirmishes

Irwin Stelzer, Weekly Standard

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Some 53 percent of Americans now say they don’t much like free trade, compared with 32 percent a decade ago. In part that is due to unhappiness with the jobs situation. Today’s jobs report might have cheered specialists who dig beneath the headline numbers: 64,000 private sector jobs were created in September.

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