All Posts Tagged With: "global economy"
Presidents Can’t Manage the Economy
The presidential candidates have been repeatedly asked how they would “manage the economy.” With the exception of Ron Paul, every candidate has accepted the premise that this is something the president of the United States should do. Or can do. Nonsense. Democrats act like the president is national economic manager. Republicans pay lip service to [...]
1Apr2008 | John Stossel | 0 comments | ContinuedMade Everywhere
In June I suggested that since exports and imports are defined with reference to economically irrelevant political boundaries, the very concepts are invidious: “There is only what I make and what everyone else makes.” Here’s another way to illustrate the point, compliments of economist Sudha Shenoy of the University of Newcastle, Australia. Shenoy shows that in [...]
1Jul2007 | Sheldon Richman | 0 comments | ContinuedWe Have Enough Globalization?
Jude Blanchette is a freelance writer living in Shanghai. The debate over free trade is, and has been for over 200 years, quite contentious. In reading over the historical debates, it often seems as if no ground has been made by the advocates of a global, borderless economy. Indeed, this is what makes reading Adam [...]
1Jun2007 | Jude Blanchette | 0 comments | ContinuedU.S.-China Relations after CNOOC
When the China hawks in Congress joined
forces last summer with protectionists, a
strong (and dangerous) coalition formed to
effectively end any hopes that CNOOC Ltd., a subsidiary
of the state-owned China National Offshore Oil
Company, would succeed in its bid to acquire Unocal.
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