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Forget What Trump Can Do, Voters Likely Won't Allow It

Published: 3 March 2016

What are the main issues that David Cameron negotiated with the EU and put up for the coming referendum?

They are roughly the same issues that appear at the top of the electorate worries in the United States too: a drastically expanded unaccountable bureaucracy; level of welfare benefits and the elimination of programs (Obamacare in the US, others in the UK); regulatory reform, and last but not least, security and migration, and limiting migrants' benefits. Whereas the topics are similar, there is a sharp contrast in the level of debates between the articulate Parliamentary ones in the UK and the mudslinging and the shenanigans in the US.

Reuven Brenner holds the Repap Chair at McGill University's Desautels Faculty of Management. He's the author of numerous books, including Force of Finance.  

Read full article: Real Clear Markets, 1 March, 2016 

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