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  The way ahead
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Last EditedRP  Oct 06, 2016 05:34pm
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AuthorBarack Obama
MediaNewspaper - Economist (The)
News DateSaturday, October 8, 2016 11:00:00 PM UTC0:0
DescriptionAmerica’s president writes for us about four crucial areas of unfinished business in economic policy that his successor will have to tackle

WHEREVER I go these days, at home or abroad, people ask me the same question: what is happening in the American political system? How has a country that has benefited—perhaps more than any other—from immigration, trade and technological innovation suddenly developed a strain of anti-immigrant, anti-innovation protectionism? Why have some on the far left and even more on the far right embraced a crude populism that promises a return to a past that is not possible to restore—and that, for most Americans, never existed at all?
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