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n. - A card game for two players in which the object is to win all of the other player's cards.

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  • Last century's interwar years produced protectionist beggar-my-neighbor policies which only intensified the Depression and set nation against nation.
  • Competitive wage reductions, competitive tariffs, competitive liquidation of foreign assets, competitive currency deflations, competitive economy campaigns - all are of this...
  • No, Mr. Bergsten, reaction to it is better known as 'tit-for-tat' - or 'beggar-my-neighbor' policies: policies that attempt to remedy economic problems in one country in...
  • EU governments are aiming to cut both debt and fiscal deficits on a scale that threatens beggar-my-neighbor deflation, denies their 2008 commitment to a European...
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