Erecting
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Erecting high tariff barriers might cost as many US jobs as Mexican jobs.
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Tom Skerritt plays as Howard Anderson, an American entrepreneur with a "passion for building" who is in process of
erecting
a tourist hotel in the Blue Mountains region, all the while unaware that his business partner, Julian Fane (Guy Doleman) has insured the incomplete structure for ten million dollars, far more than its actual worth, and plans its destruction as corollary to normal summer brush fires in order to collect a handsome sum through fraud.
US policy is thus delivering a double whammy on competitive devaluation – weakening the dollar and forcing competitors to strengthen their currencies (though some are taking countermeasures,
erecting
barriers to short-term inflows and intervening more directly in foreign-exchange markets).
“I'll kill him if he builds a palace here," shouts Nikolai, in a reference to current Russian leaders' proclivity for
erecting
garish monuments to their personal splendor: Putin's Italianate palace on the Black sea, for example, allegedly cost more than $1 billion.
Erecting
a wall along the 5,525-mile border with Canada would cost almost $50 billion and would cut through an airport runway, an opera house, homes, and businesses that currently straddle the border.
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