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thehill.com - 2/3/2009
Obama’s free traders mum on protection
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Free-traders on President Obama’s economic team are suppressing concerns over Buy American provisions in the stimulus, derided as protectionist by corporate lobbyists. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner and Obama’s top economic adviser, Lawrence Summers, have raised no objections to tough ...
marketnewslive.blogspot.com - 2/11/2009
Video: Traders 'not moved' by Geithner speech
— marketnewslive.blogspot.com — Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner on Tuesday outlined plans to increase consumer lending and remove toxic assets from... banks' balance sheets. But analysts said they were disappointed by the lack of details in the plans. (more) Video: Traders 'not moved' by Geithner speech

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Progressive Breakfast: Light Up The Phones
LiberalOasis : The Blog — ... The Hill reports Obama aides seen as "free-traders" are not opposing the "Buy American" provisions in the econ recovery bill, which may help secure GOP support in the Senate: ...

Scott Paul: Time to End the Inquisition against Buy America Advocates
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com — ... that there might be some theoretical rationale for Buy America, though Krugman made it clear he did not personally favor such an approach. Other economists, like former Labor Secretary Robert Reichand BusinessWeek's ...

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