USA Today had a piece about the growing threat of protectionism. It then listed a series of measures in the various G-20 countries that it viewed as protectionist. For some reason, it excluded from its list the trillions of dollars in below market rate loans that the United States is giving to its financial system. It did not even include the "buy America" provision in the Geithner plan that requires that the financial firms managing investment funds in the plan be headquartered in the United States.
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