"One year doesn't make a big difference, " says Edwin Truman, a senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics and a former assistant Treasury secretary for international affairs.

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Nonetheless, don't expect Bush to try to discourage it, says Edwin Truman, a senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics and a former assistant secretary for international affairs in the Treasury Department.

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