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Feb 25, 2008 · The Clinton campaign says Obama is wrong, that Clinton was critical of NAFTA "long before she started running for president." We looked into Clinton's past remarks on NAFTA and...
Feb 14, 2014 · President Bill Clinton signed the agreement into law and said that “NAFTA means jobs, American jobs and good-paying American jobs.” So, how have the economies from these three countries...
Sep 21, 2018 · The strange tale about why Bill Clinton said NAFTA would create 1 million jobs - The Washington Post. This article was published more than 5 years ago. The strange tale about why Bill...
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Feb 25, 2008 · National. By Bill Adair February 25, 2008. By Angie Drobnic Holan February 25, 2008. SUMMARY: Barack Obama charges Hillary Clinton with flip-flopping on NAFTA. He repeats a false detail,...
- Bill Clinton and His Moment
- The Clintonites Confront The Bond Market—And Retreat
- Trade Policy and Politics
- Misjudging Capital: Failure of Health Insurance and Labor Law Reform
- Financial Deregulation
Although conventional historical and journalistic thinking places Ronald Reagan at the center of the conservative turn in American trade and fiscal policy, we know that ratification of such a policy turn takes place only when the ostensibly hostile opposition party accommodates and then advances this transformation. And that is what the administrat...
But a revival and modernization of New Deal–style liberalism was stillborn at the dawn of the Clinton era. Just as Republican Dwight Eisenhower legitimized the New Deal by accepting many of its accomplishments, Bill Clinton ratified much neoliberal policy long before Newt Gingrich led the GOP to victory in the 1994 congressional rout or Clinton sou...
Trade policy constitutes a version of industrial policy. The North American Free Trade Agreement had far less to do with trade than with investment policy, ensuring that in Mexico, U.S. companies and banks could repatriate profits, extend U.S. patent and copyright protections, and once and for all end any Mexican government temptation to expropriat...
Although the Clinton left had been defeated when it came to a Keynesian stimulation of the economy or construction of a managed trade regime with Mexico and other nations, they believed reform of the immense health system as well as the increasingly calcified labor relations regime was still possible. In both instances, policy entrepreneurs like Ir...
While the reform of health provision remained stymied during the 1990s, a radical restructuring of American finance proceeded with little opposition. By the mid-1990s, nearly all of Clinton’s advisers (notable exceptions being Joseph Stiglitz and Brooksley Born) repeatedly reassured him that the decision to let Wall Street dismantle regulatory prot...
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Apr 21, 2015 · It also highlights Clinton's complicated history with trade. Her husband brokered and passed the North American Free Trade Agreement, or NAFTA, in 1993.
May 19, 2015 · 446. CHICAGO — IN 1993, President Bill Clinton tapped me as special counsel to lead the fight to pass the North American Free Trade Agreement. As a new trade debate rages in Washington, I’ve...
