Worldfocus » Jeffrey Garten http://worldfocus.org International News, Videos and Blogs Wed, 17 Mar 2010 21:18:58 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 en Obama’s “Buy American” rule provokes trading partners http://worldfocus.org/blog/2009/02/04/obamas-buy-american-rule-provokes-trading-partners/3912/ http://worldfocus.org/blog/2009/02/04/obamas-buy-american-rule-provokes-trading-partners/3912/#comments Wed, 04 Feb 2009 21:04:34 +0000 Worldfocus http://worldfocus.org/?p=3912 From Washington to Beijing, from Reykjavik to Moscow, governments everywhere are struggling to devise ways to save millions of jobs being lost as the global recession accelerates.

Jeffrey Garten is a former undersecretary of commerce in the Clinton Administration, a former managing partner at Lehman Brothers and now a professor at Yale University’s School of Management. He joins Martin Savidge to discuss China’s role in global economic recovery, the likelihood of success for stimulus packages around the world and global reactions to “buy American” provisions in President Barack Obama’s proposed stimulus plan.

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