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Obama’s climate rules are safer than they seem

  Those who support aggressive action to reduce greenhouse gases fear that the Donald Trump administration will undo all or most of President Barack Obama’s climate change initiatives. But those fears are probably unwarranted. A good guess, based on a close look at the regulations that matter most, is that the Obama administration’s work on climate is more secure than ...

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Good UK data looks likely to break bad in 2017

  Economists and investors wondering how much longer they will have to wait before fallout from June’s Brexit vote appears in the data may get their answer soon. While much has been made of the resilience of the UK economy, with GDP data and PMI readings beating expectations while unemployment continues to fall, the tide may be turning on the ...

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Mexico, China are very different trading partners

  With free trade under fire from the incoming administration and under question from many other quarters, it is U.S. trade relations with China and Mexico that have been getting the most attention and criticism. That makes sense, given that those are two of this country’s three biggest trading partners — and the third is Canada, which is hard to ...

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