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COMMENT: Compensating free trade’s losers

Even if compensation was a viable approach two decades ago, it no longer serves as a practical response to globalisation’s adverse effects By Dani Rodrik It appears that a new consensus has taken hold these days among the world’s business and policy elites about how to address the anti-globalisation backlash …

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George W Bush votes ‘none of the above’ in US election

Washington, United States | AFP |  George W. Bush cast a protest vote of sorts in the US election, with an aide saying Tuesday the former president chose “none of the above” rather than fellow Republican Donald Trump or Democrat Hillary Clinton. Bush had previously signaled that he intended to …

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Republicans projected to hold US House

Washington, United States | AFP | Republicans will hold on to their majority in the US House of Representatives as expected, networks projected Tuesday, as attention shifts to the Senate where the battle for control is tighter. With the US election in full swing, the party of populists presidential candidate …

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George H.W. Bush to vote for Democrat Clinton? A Kennedy says so

Washington, United States | AFP |  Former president George H.W. Bush plans to vote for Hillary Clinton in November, the niece of president John F. Kennedy wrote in a Facebook posting. “The President told me he’s voting for Hillary!!” read the caption of a picture Kathleen Kennedy Townsend posted on …

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