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Film and video editors — the next to be “offshored?”

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Yes, according to free trade apostle Alan S. Blinder, who was one of Bill Clinton and John Kerry’s financial advisers, a Fed reserve honcho, and who teaches at Princeton.

His recent piece in the Wall Street Journal has been causing over-the-weekend buzz, and contains this item:

In a box accompanying the WSJ article, Blinder notes that 12,470 economists are ‘highly offshorable.’ Along with 180,910 financial analysts. And many other jobs that require a great deal of education, like mathematicians, film and video editors, interpreters, computer programmers (389,090!)and actuaries.

You can read more about it right here

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