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So today in the Pearl Sarah, I thought we should talk about how both of the major party candidates

gave economic policy speeches last week. I hope we didn't need to actually watch this

speeches to talk about it because I didn't.

Well, so NPR has a really good sort of side-by-side of the two comparing them on major themes.

And I thought we could go through those major themes and just talk about their different positions.

So on trade, both candidates claim to oppose the Trans-Pacific Partnership.

And both essentially, I'm so amused by the language that came out of both of these speeches on

trade because basically they both said we're only going to do trade deals with no downside.

Well, I think it does too. Hillary Clinton talked about how we do have to engage with the world.

So she spoke, I think, on Earth for a second about that. But then said that she would oppose any

trade deal that kills jobs or lowers wages. And Trump said that he is going to renegotiate

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