Auction 2012: Big Money's Next Trade Goal Is 'NAFTA With Asia'

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Auction 2012 is a weeklong series in collaboration with "The Dylan Ratigan Show" and United Republic.

The 1994 North American Free Trade Agreement soured the American public on trade deals that were supposed to boost the economy -- remember the giant sucking sound that followed? -- but it left America's globe-spanning corporate behemoths panting for more.

Since then, powerful business interests have cheered the signing of 19 more such agreements. The three most recent, with South Korea, Colombia and Panama, won congressional approval in October.

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