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Global trade growth is lackluster, so why all the controversy?

Kai Ryssdal talks with Binyamin Appelbaum of the New York Times about why global trade isn’t on the rise any more.

An inflatable Trojan horse is seen as people demonstrate outside the European Union headquarters in Brussels, on September 20, 2016 to protest against huge transatlantic trade deals linking Europe with Canada and the United States.
An inflatable Trojan horse is seen as people demonstrate outside the European Union headquarters in Brussels, on September 20, 2016 to protest against huge transatlantic trade deals linking Europe with Canada and the United States.
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The global economy in which we all live and work has been blamed for a lot of things this election cycle. Too many factory jobs leaving the country and not enough of our domestic-made products doing the same. To hear the politicians tell it, trade is a terrible thing. Turns out, though, trade has problems of its own. Binyamin Appelbaum writes of them in the New York Times and spoke with Kai Ryssdal.

 

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