As I said at the outset, the one thing about policy choices at the beginning of an economic expansion is that the stakes are really, really high.

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In social as in economic policy, the government prefers local experimentation and piecemeal expansion.

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Another involves trade policy, where economic populists in the party are less friendly to expansion of free trade and more concerned about U.S. workers under pressure from foreign competition.

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