Off-the-cuff

摘要

At the time, the billionaire businessman was describing how all the jobs would be sucked out of America post NAFTA's introduction. In the end his warnings kind of came true, although it wasn't just free trade which helped push the US unemployment rate to 9% (13.9 million) by the start of this year.Now, according to one North US market watcher, another big sucking sound is about to happen, and it will primarily come within close earshot of mining nations like Australia and Canada.