"A well-functioning free market is not devoid of laws, " says Matthew Slaughter of the Tuck School of Business.

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Yet getting small firms to export more won't help the economy much in the near term, says Matthew Slaughter of Dartmouth College.

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Matthew Slaughter of Dartmouth College notes that only 4% of all American firms and 15% of American manufacturers do any exporting at all.

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"He's very open and optimistic, with very high energy, " said Dartmouth economist Matthew Slaughter, who served as an economic adviser to former President George W. Bush.

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"For advanced countries, more imports today are coming from middle- and low-income countries, " says Matthew Slaughter of Dartmouth's Tuck School of Business, a former Bush White House adviser.

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Matthew Slaughter of Dartmouth's Tuck School of Business and Laura Tyson of Berkeley's Haas School of Business point out that multinational firms (which pay higher wages than non-multinationals) increased employment in America by 24% in the 1990s.

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We are introduced to a band of former crime busters, now under threat: Nite Owl (Patrick Wilson), the Comedian (Jeffrey Dean Morgan), Dr. Manhattan (Billy Crudup), the lithe but witless Silk Spectre (Malin Akerman), a moneyed fop named Ozymandias (Matthew Goode), and, lastly, Rorschach (Jackie Earle Haley), who takes time off from merciless slaughter to narrate the proceedings.

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