2 days ago by userboostadmin

There are two dogmas that neoclassical economists must never publicly doubt lest they be defrocked by their professional priesthood: first, that growth in GDP is always good and is the solution to most problems; second, that free international trade is mutually beneficial thanks to the growth-promot ...

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5 days ago by Ariel Cohen

President Obama and President of the Republicof Georgia Mikheil Saakashvilirecently announced that the two countries should start free-trade negotiations. Let’s hope both presidents are serious. Presidents Obama and Saakashvili should instruct the appropriate government agencies to expedite preparat ...

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5 days ago by TheFoundry

President Obama and President of the Republicof Georgia Mikheil Saakashvilirecently announced that the two countries should start free-trade negotiations. Let’s hope both presidents are serious. Presidents Obama and Saakashvili should instruct the appropriate government agencies to expedite preparat ...

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7 days ago by The World's Most Accurate Economic Forecaster

The coming Trans-Pacific Free Trade Treaty is called a free trade treaty. The joke is on us. The use of the discredited term “Free trade” is no different than the old discredited sound bite used by President Ronald Reagan and his followers, “Trickle down.” Trickle down did not exist. It was an illus ...

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7 days ago by AppalledBC

Defenceless: Selling Our Sovereignty G lavin's been writing a series of articles on our retreat from even gesturing in the direction of national security interests in our trade and foreign investment dealings. We are sacrificing both our natural resources and sovereign power in the interests of what ...

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9 days ago by Nonoy Oplas

Trade protectionism serves two main groups and vested interests: the protected domestic business groups or sectors, and the government. The former can raise their prices and local consumers will have no choice but buy from them since competing imported products are either not available or available ...

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11 days ago by Sauvik

I bet none of you could read the Greek word in the quote from Mises that concluded yesterday's post - but we all learn Greek letters in our Mathematics classes! Mises, Leoni, Hayek - they liked to write like that, these classical European scholars of an age gone by. French, Italian, German as well a ...

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12 days ago by Amar Toor

China suffered another setback at the WTO yesterday, thanks to a ruling that could spell trouble for its controversial rare earths industry. In a decision issued Monday, a WTO panel determined that the Chinese government has been acting in violation of international trade rules, due to export restri ...

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12 days ago by Alan Moran

In yesterday’s AFR, Peter Roberts made explicit a proposal that is lurking within the Government’s draft White Paper on energy. He called for suppliers of gas to be forced to ensure the diversion of supplies to local users, implicitly (or such forced action would be unnecessary) at lower prices than ...

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15 days ago by Pam Villarreal

The president recently spoke to a group of UPS workers in Nevada, where he expressed his wants and desires for the economy. Referring to his SOTU speech, he told the crowd, “… where we’re making stuff and selling stuff and moving it around and UPS drivers are dropping things off everywhere.” Last ti ...

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