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Nov
2009
Unelected Briton Is Second In Command At Unelected EU

14 hours ago by The Uni Hack

She doesn’t (nor does the new President of Europe) have a slither of a mandate, but Labour peer Baroness Ashton is the second most powerful person in the European Union today. People have been charging her with not having enough experience, but for me that isn’t the issue. It is an issue, but not th ...

The Student's Politics - thestudentspolitics.wordpress.com

Obama wants progress on Korea-US FTA

1 day ago by Bill Hatch

SEOUL, Nov. 19 (Xinhua) — U.S. President Barack Obama expressed hope to work out details on the pending free trade agreement (FTA) with South Korea, eyeing its ratification as early as next year, South Korean media reported Thursday, quoting the president’s interview with a U.S. broadcaster. “We are ...

Asia Pacific Voices - asiapacvoices.com · 1 reference

Is Buying Local Good for the Community?

1 day ago by Lyric Duveyoung

Imagine a simplified world with two neighboring towns. What would happen if the chair maker in one asked everyone to “buy local?”

Fairfield Voice - fairfieldvoice.com · Rank: 156,916 · 7 references

19
Nov
2009
Surprise! (Trade Policy Edition)

1 day ago by Pejman Yousefzadeh

Asian leaders prefer Bush trade policies to Obama trade policies. Of course, that is not hard to do, when there are few specifics to the Obama Administration’s approach to trade, when to the extent that we have been afforded specifics, they have served to make the Obama Administration appear to be t ...

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Terence Corcoran: Can’t we all drink from the same cow?

1 day ago by NP Editor

Free trade is great — except to dairy marketers By Terence Corcoran C hirp chirp. Cluck cluck. Moo moo. It’s time, boys and girls, to put on our galoshes and take another stroll through the Canadian farm marketing annual fall fair. It’s been a while since we toured the supply management system, and ...

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US Congress Declares Trade War on China

1 day ago by Sinomania!

The US-China Economic and Security Review Commission of the US Congress released its 2009 annual report today. Timed to match Obama's return from China, the assessment is unusually bellicose in its condemnation of all things Chinese. The report not only blames China for the current financial crisis ...

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How Realistic Is The ‘Good Society’ Project?

2 days ago by Florin Abraham

It is important to be honest about the very real conflicts that exist between ethical values and the practical realities of power. Any project that envisages changing Europe through a combination of gradualist methods and revolutionary objectives contains from the outset an element of utopianism. Th ...

Social Europe Journal - social-europe.eu · Rank: 17,259 · 66 references

Migration and Trade: Theory with an Application to the Eastern-Western ...

2 days ago by Ariel Goldring

Susana Iranzo (Universitat Rovira Virgili) and Giovanni Peri (University of California Davis, CESifo and NBER) have a new paper that looks into the relationship between migration and trade: The remarkable increase in trade flows and in migratory flows of highly educated people are two important feat ...

Free Market Mojo - freemarketmojo.wordpress.com · Rank: 19,967 · 26 references

11/18 News: President Obama

2 days ago by Shay Riley

Poll: Obama Popularity Below 50 Percent For First Time President Barack Obama's job approval rating has dipped below 50 percent nationally for the first time, as Americans worry about the war in Afghanistan The Quinnipiac University poll showed 48 percent of Americans approve of the way the liberal ...

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Bhagwati on protectionism

2 days ago by Aristotle The Geek

An interesting interview with Jagdish Bhagwati where he talks about protectionism and free trade. He mentions global warming too- I think it depends on the way you do it. First, you’ve got to decide whether there is a problem of an externality. I have doubts about these scientists who claim to have ...

Aristotle The Geek - aristotlethegeek.wordpress.com · Rank: 67,115 · 22 references

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