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Derek Shearer: Economics and Presidential Politics -- "It's Globalization, Stupid"

Rover found this 2/29/2008 on huffingtonpost.com

Presidential campaigns are not well-suited for rational or sophisticated discussion of economics -- and this year's race is not any different. Already we have seen candidates blaming trade with Mexico or exports from China for the nation's economic woes, and for the decline of the middle class. In the Ohio primary, Senators Clinton and Obama have singled out NAFTA -- the North American ...