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Wolfgang Schäuble warns against protectionism in US [Germany’s finance minister]
Deutsche Welle ^ | 10.15.2017 | ap/cmk (Reuters, AFP)

Posted on 10/15/2017 7:53:30 PM PDT by Olog-hai

Wolfgang Schäuble, who is due to become the next president of Germany’s lower house of parliament, on Saturday made his last appearance at the annual conference of the International Monetary Fund as Germany’s finance minister.

During his speech, Schäuble reiterated his warnings against protectionist economic policies and appealed for closer trade cooperation among countries. “We should all be worried about the weak growth of global trade and the increasing anti-free trade rhetoric,” he said. “We need more openness rather than less.” […]

Schäuble, the chairman of the G20 finance group this year, said he believed the backlash against globalization was giving way to a greater understanding that the path toward rising prosperity for all depends on greater cooperation among countries.

Schäuble did not refer directly to US President Donald Trump and his “America First” policy during the speech. …

(Excerpt) Read more at dw.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Foreign Affairs; Germany; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: europeanunion; eussr; g20; protectionism; schaeuble; socialmarketeconomy
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If he was serious, then Germany would stop leaning on EU countries with lower corporate tax rates than itself to raise theirs. Not to mention, deregulation en masse in that country would start happening (it is not).
1 posted on 10/15/2017 7:53:31 PM PDT by Olog-hai
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that the path toward rising prosperity for all depends on greater cooperation among countries.

Commie talk.

As for me I don't give f*** about the citizens of other countries, I only care about my fellow Americans and their prosperity.

Free Traitors™ and gloBULList can KMA.

2 posted on 10/15/2017 7:57:45 PM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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Is he worried that America will hurt itself?
Or is he worried that America will hurt the EU?

The answer is obvious.

Trump pursues Economic Nationalism because it is good for the US. Schäuble warns against Economic Nationalism because it will show the EU as a house of cards.


3 posted on 10/15/2017 8:03:57 PM PDT by ClearCase_guy (Benedict McCain is the worst traitor ever to wear the uniform of the US military.)
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It’s not protectionism. We should buy whatever benefits American interests. If American consumers want a product that has a unique heritage and excellent quality from another country, we’ll buy it from that country. Bananas are a good example. Another might be Lederhosen.

;-)


4 posted on 10/15/2017 8:05:17 PM PDT by familyop ("Welcome to Costco. I love you." --Costco greeter in the movie, "Idiocracy")
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Well,for one thing I've been buying German made cars (Germans brands *assembled* in Germany)...for years.But that's history.

My next car will either be Japanese or a Jaguar.

5 posted on 10/15/2017 8:05:51 PM PDT by Gay State Conservative (ObamaCare Works For Those Who Don't.)
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Trump should grant them Most Annoying Nation status.


6 posted on 10/15/2017 8:08:41 PM PDT by JennysCool
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To: Olog-hai

When America is health financially, economically, socially and spiritually, the rest of the world is in a better place. We are the adults in a plane at 30,000 ft that has just lost cabin pressure and the oxygen masks have dropped from the ceiling. We’re putting on our oxygen masks first................


7 posted on 10/15/2017 8:11:01 PM PDT by Dapper 26
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Meanwhile, his country would not have gotten where it was in the EU without being strongly economically nationalist.


8 posted on 10/15/2017 8:16:41 PM PDT by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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I’d post a picture of a B-17 taking flak as metaphor for Trump being over the target but I am too tired.


9 posted on 10/15/2017 8:17:28 PM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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My sister has a 2005 Jetta (five-cylinder) and the thing has been nickel-and-diming her for quite a while.


10 posted on 10/15/2017 8:19:29 PM PDT by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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Commie talk is right......the Germans have been very unfortunate for centuries. They have been run by shady socialists. It is time for the ancient German tribes to rise up against them.


11 posted on 10/15/2017 8:20:01 PM PDT by doc maverick (I)
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Marx was German.


12 posted on 10/15/2017 8:20:54 PM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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My sister has a 2005 Jetta (five-cylinder) and the thing has been nickel-and-diming her for quite a while.

I have a 2012 Jetta Sportwagen and it's been perfect. At 80,000 miles the brakes are still good. Not to mention, it runs like a bat out of hell-really!

13 posted on 10/15/2017 8:24:27 PM PDT by libertylover (Kurt Schlicter: "They wonder why they got Trump. They are why they got Trump")
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That has the five-cylinder too?

She’s up to 180K on her car. Me, I’m stuck with a 1.8 Corolla from 07 (assembled in USA), but I’m up to 210K and no problems like she’s experienced.


14 posted on 10/15/2017 8:30:56 PM PDT by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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Yeah, mine has the 2.5L 5 cylinder with a 6-speed transmission. Shifts automatically or shift your own. 80,000 miles-not new but not really a lot these days either.


15 posted on 10/15/2017 8:38:58 PM PDT by libertylover (Kurt Schlicter: "They wonder why they got Trump. They are why they got Trump")
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.....I’d post a picture of a B-17 taking flak as metaphor for Trump being over the target but I am too tired......

Will This One Do?


16 posted on 10/15/2017 8:41:11 PM PDT by Fiddlstix (Warning! This Is A Subliminal Tagline! Read it at your own risk!(Presented by TagLines R US))
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17 posted on 10/15/2017 10:20:07 PM PDT by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives)
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To: Gay State Conservative

Speaking as a Jaguar fan... skip the current crop of Jaguars. They’ve been decontenting and downgrading like mad lately and the quality has gone downhill (again.). The XE is an embarrassment, the F-Type is a bad value, etc., etc.

Look at the Japanese, Koreans or Ford.


18 posted on 10/16/2017 12:23:35 AM PDT by Spktyr (Overwhelmingly superior firepower and the willingness to use it is the only proven peace solution.)
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To: libertylover

That must be the only good one they ever made.


19 posted on 10/16/2017 12:24:01 AM PDT by Spktyr (Overwhelmingly superior firepower and the willingness to use it is the only proven peace solution.)
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[“We should all be worried about the weak growth of global trade and the increasing anti-free trade rhetoric,” he said.]

TRANSLATION: The U.S. is taking back what was stolen from them. MAGA


20 posted on 10/16/2017 4:14:26 AM PDT by stars & stripes forever (Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord. Psalm 33:12)
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