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Conor Clarke - Conor Clarke is the editor, with Michael Kinsley, of Creative Capitalism. He was previously a fellow at The Atlantic and an editor at The Guardian. More

Conor Clarke is the editor, with Michael Kinsley, of Creative Capitalism, an economics blog that was recently published in book form by Simon and Schuster. He was previously a fellow at The Atlantic and an editor at The Guardian. He is also on Twitter.
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Tim Geithner's "Buy America"?

By Conor Clarke

Mar 23 2009, 5:29 PM ET Comment

Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner at last month's G7 meeting:

All countries need to sustain a commitment to open trade and investment policies which are essential to economic growth and prosperity.

From the fund manager application (pdf) for Treasury's new public-private investment fund:

Fund Managers will be pre-qualified based upon criteria that are anticipated to include [...] Headquarters in the United States.



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