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G20 Talks: Damned If You Do...

By Matthew Bandyk

Posted: September 22, 2009

The FT reports how expectations are low for the G20's meeting this Friday on ways to achieve more "balanced" global growth:

British officials warned that unless more balanced growth could be achieved, the global community would have to accept either lower growth or a retreat to protectionism, as every country tried to create a trade surplus.

[emphasis mine]

So you can have either lower growth or... protectionism, which almost always means lower growth. What'll it be?

Not much danger

that America is going to somehow create a "trade surplus"---given our continuing multi-decade history of trade deficits. But one does wonder how long other nations will finance them.

Muser of NM @ Sep 22, 2009 20:22:16 PM

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