[NEWS] Some economics links: Québec, Canada, Mexico, United States, Poland and China

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• Despite strong economic growth recently, it is unlikely that the CAQ will be able to fulfill its promise to make Québec no longer a net receiver of equalization payments. The National Post reports.


• Canadians may well be relieved that NAFTA has been superseded smoothly enough by the USMCA, but Canadians are also not forgetting their country's treatment by the Trump Administration. The Canadian Press, via CTV News, reports.


• MacLean's explains the NAFTA/USMCA situation from the perspective of Mexicans, who seem to have felt their country simply did not have many good choices.


• Do the wage increases given to workers by Amazon promise higher wages for American workers more generally and a strong economy? Maybe, maybe not. CBC's Don Pittis reports.


• So far, Poland has not benefited as much as it might hope from Chinese investments in the country. Transitions Online reports.