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@ my Linked In feed, editor

artappraiser — Wed, 25 Jan 2017 20:10:58 +0000

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@ my Linked In feed, editor Nicolas Thompson of The New Yorker posted Adam Davidson's news article on this with this added comment:

We've killed the TPP. That won't have much effect here--good or bad--but it's great news for China.

Yes. The trade agreements may

moat — Wed, 25 Jan 2017 01:24:20 +0000

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Yes. The trade agreements may have all kinds of bad consequences but leaving them all (especially at the same time) has consequences too.
I am pretty sure this move will screw actual Republicans. May they pursue their own interests (to a certain extent).
I have run out of parentheses.

Wonder if this sort of news

barefooted — Wed, 25 Jan 2017 01:12:51 +0000

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Wonder if this sort of news is what they'd like to suppress - from Bloomberg:

Trump’s decision Monday to pull out of the Trans-Pacific Partnership, which would have reduced tariffs and strengthened economic ties between the U.S. and 11 other countries, will cost the agriculture industry as much as $4.4 billion a year in potential sales, according to the American Farm Bureau Federation, the biggest U.S. farmer group.

Reopening talks over the North American Free Trade Agreement, which Trump has called a "disaster" and plans to bring up in a meeting later this month with the Mexican president, risks dealing an even bigger blow for agriculture, one of the few sectors of the American economy with a net trade surplus.