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Thursday 4th February 2016 Auckland played host to the Washington mooted signing of the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade deal that many free market economists and protagonists of economic neoclassicism would tout as a momentous day for the economic future of over eight hundred million people in the Asia-Pacific Rim. While the trade ministers and representatives of twelve countries, from USA, Australia, New Zealand, Japan, Malaysia, Vietnam, Singapore, Chile, Mexico, Canada, Brunei, and Peru joined the celebration to reroute the world economy to better days, thousands of protesters in several cities of the rim countries, took to the streets calling it as the biggest economic gamble of the times.
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