Trade

A New "American System"

Fred Bauer | Posted 05.31.2012

Read More: US Economy, Infrastructure, Education, Alexander Hamilton, Trade, Great Recession, Economy, George W. Bush, Abraham Lincoln, Republican Party, Barack Obama, Free Trade, Education Reform, Politics News
Fred Bauer

The "American System" has the following insight: The American economy cannot flourish over the long term with merely the financial and resource extraction sectors. American prosperity was built upon the nurturing of human capital.

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Business of Making Bullets Tops $4 Billion

Louis Belanger | Posted 05.30.2012

Read More: Oxfam, Att, Weapons, Oxfam International, Arms Trade Treaty, Arms Trade, Trade, Global Ammunition Trade, World News
Louis Belanger

According to a new study by Oxfam, the ammunition trade tops $4 billion and yet the world has little regulation to control and keep track of who the bullets are sold to.

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Scientists Find New Clue In Collapse Of Ancient Civilization

The Huffington Post | Jacqueline Howard | Posted 05.30.2012

Read More: History, Video, Field Museum, Trade, Gary Feinman, Maya Civilization, Science, Science News, Maya Collapse, Archeology, Maya History, Science News

Maya history--and the civilization's "collapse"--continue to occupy the minds of archeologists. Some research points to a series of droughts as playin...

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Zach Carter

Obama Administration Says 'No' To Global Health Fund For Developing Nations

HuffingtonPost.com | Zach Carter | Posted 05.25.2012

Read More: Tpp, Poverty, Economy, Drug Companies, Tb, Hiv, Free Trade, Jobs, Obama, Bernie Sanders, Who, Trans-Pacific Partnership, Tuberculosis, Pharma, World Health Assembly, Pharmaceutical Companies, Politics, Doctors Without Borders, Video, Wha, World Health Organization, Geneva, Phrma, Trade, Aids, Msf, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- The Obama administration has alarmed global health experts by opposing a new international fund that would fight disease in the developi...

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Zach Carter

Trade Revolt Against Obama Intensifies

HuffingtonPost.com | Zach Carter | Posted 05.24.2012

Read More: Tpp, Ron Wyden, 2012 Elections, Wyden, Economy, Darrell Issa, Jobs, Free Trade, Obama, Buy America, Trans-Pacific Partnership, Barack Obama, Buy American, 2012, Issa, Video, Sen. Ron Wyden, Trans-Pacific, Trade, Prescription Drugs, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) introduced legislation late Wednesday to protest the Obama administration's refusal to share information about c...

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Mercantilism, Manufacturing, and a Political Problem

Ralph Gomory | Posted 05.22.2012

Read More: Taxes, Politics, Trade, Tariffs, Jobs, Free Trade, Manufacturing, Corporate Social Responsibility, China, Business News
Ralph Gomory

People talk a great deal about free trade. But for better or for worse the real world that we live in is more a mercantilist world than it is a free markets and free trade world.

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Zach Carter

An Idea To Fix Killer Costs Of Lifesaving Drugs

HuffingtonPost.com | Zach Carter | Posted 05.19.2012

Read More: Tpp, Sen. Bernie Sanders, Darrell Issa, Hiv, Free Trade, Stiglitz, Obama, Bernie Sanders, Trans-Pacific Partnership, Barack Obama, Issa, Doctors Without Borders, Video, Ustr, Trade, Prescription Drugs, Health Care Reform, Aids, Health Care, Drug Prices, Medicine, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) is promoting a new plan to encourage the development of better, cheaper prescription drugs: an innovation fu...

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Connected to Compete? Not as Much as We Could Be

Otaviano Canuto | Posted 05.16.2012

Read More: Financial Crisis, Logistics, Trade, Rade Logistics, Trade Logistics, U.S. Logistics, Logistics Performance, World News
Otaviano Canuto

Trade logistics, or the capacity of countries and companies to ship goods to international markets, is a key ingredient for economic competitiveness, growth, and poverty reduction.

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Zach Carter

Issa Leaks Secret Document To Pressure Obama On Trade Deal

HuffingtonPost.com | Zach Carter | Posted 05.16.2012

Read More: Big Pharma, Tpp, Ip, Acta, Economy, Darrell Issa, Manufacturing, Free Trade, Jobs, Buy America, Trans-Pacific Partnership, Barack Obama, Buy American, Sopa, Stop Online Piracy Act, Intellectual Property, Video, Trade, Trans-Pacific, Patents, Patent Reform, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- House Oversight Committee Chairman Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) has taken the unprecedented step of leaking a secret U.S. trade document, in ...

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Zach Carter

Obama's Quandry: Bashing Blundering Banks While Courting Wall Street Cash

HuffingtonPost.com | Zach Carter | Posted 05.16.2012

Read More: Corruption, 2012 Elections, Dodd-Frank, Marsha Blackburn, Derivatives, Economy, Financial Reform, Bank of America, Wall Street Reform, Mitt Romney, Jobs, Money in Politics, Obama, Democrats, Romney, Barack Obama, Campaign Finance, 2012, Thune, Video, Wall Street, Trade, Jpmorgan, Banks, J.P. Morgan, Occupy, November Elections, Fat Cats, Republicans, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama's response to JPMorgan Chase's spectacular trading failure underscores a persistent tension in his presidency -- ...

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What Are They Trying to Hide?

Michael Brune | Posted 05.04.2012

Read More: Environment, Oil, Free Trade Agreements, World Trade Organization, Trade, Trans-Pacific Partnership, Obama Trade, Green News
Michael Brune

Odds are that you haven't heard of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) agreement. And even if you've heard of it, I'm willing to bet you don't know what might be in it.

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Zach Carter

Congress Revolts On Obama Plan That Would Ban 'Buy American'

HuffingtonPost.com | Zach Carter | Posted 05.03.2012

Read More: Tpp, 2012 Elections, Economy, Jobs, Obama, Trans-Pacific Partnership, Buy America, Business, Barack Obama, Buy American, 2012, Politics, Video, Ustr, Trans-Pacific, Trade, Environment, Trans Pacific Partnership, November Elections, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- A group of 68 House Democrats and one Republican sent a letter to President Barack Obama on Thursday urging him to reconsider an element...

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Imitation Outrage: Faking Concern for the Chinese Masses

Robert Scheer | Posted 05.03.2012

Read More: Population, Robert Scheer, Debt, History, Labor, Timothy Geithner, Trade, Economy, Wall Street, China, Hillary Clinton, Chen Guangcheng, Republicans, Politics News
Robert Scheer

Our leaders are no more serious about human rights in China than they are about such conditions in oil-rich Saudi Arabia, for the simple reason that we need what those nations have more than they need us.

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Free Trade Run Amok: The 'TPP'

Leo Hindery, Jr. | Posted 05.01.2012

Read More: President Obama, South Korea, Nafta, Trade, Cafta, Colombia, Pacific Rim, Panama, China, Japan, Politics News
Leo Hindery, Jr.

Bilateral and thoughtfully constructed 'smallish' regional agreements are always preferable to massive multilateral agreements among widely disparate trading partners.

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Is Obama Getting Serious About Manufacturing? Maybe

Ian Fletcher | Posted 04.23.2012

Read More: Obama Administration, Manufacturing, Barack Obama, Mitt Romney, Trade, Obama Trade, President Obama, Gene Sperling Speech, Gene Sperling, China Trade, Obama Manufacturing, Business News
Ian Fletcher

Let's take a look at a speech recently given by Gene Sperling, Director of the National Economic Council. It's a good metric of whether the administration "gets it" on manufacturing, and gives a fairly clear picture of the evolution of its thinking.

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Collaborative Border Management: A New Approach to an Old Problem

Otaviano Canuto | Posted 04.06.2012

Read More: Developing Countries, Trade, World Bank, International Trade, Global Trade, Barriers to Trade, Customs, Trade Law Reform, Trade Laws, Business News
Otaviano Canuto

Tough decisions are needed on where to spend limited resources to pursue border management reform. To this end, a well defined business case -- weighing costs and benefits -- needs to be prepared.

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How Can Africa Compete With China?

Marcelo Giugale | Posted 04.04.2012

Read More: Corruption, Nollywood, Intellectual Property, Africa, Trade, International Development, Free Trade, Food, Manufacturing, China, Development, Africa-China-Relations, Africa Trade, World News
Marcelo Giugale

Africans have lots of opportunities to trade that they have not yet exploited -- opportunities that are outside of China's reach. The first of this "low-hanging fruits" is food.

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Our Dangerous Dependence on Foreign Chocolate

Ernest Istook | Posted 04.04.2012

Read More: Candy, Energy, Green Jobs, Humor, Solyndra, Obama, Subsidies, Weight, Subsidy, Imports, Trade, Chocolate, Political Humor, Satire, Oil, Environment, Political Satire, International, Foreign Oil, Oil Imports, Cocoa, Politics News
Ernest Istook

Mr. Obama is using flimsy and misleading numbers to justify his anti-oil and gas energy policy, and his mega-billion dollar subsidies for "green energy" and "green jobs." So perhaps it's time for him to pivot to another basic necessity, like chocolate.

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End the Unilateral Trade Sanctions on Collectors

Wayne Sayles | Posted 04.03.2012

Read More: Free Trade, Trade Policy, Trade, Coin Collectors, Obama Trade Policy, Maria Kouroupas, Culture News
Wayne Sayles

While government agencies in Washington increase surcharges and restrictions for U.S. consumers of cultural artifacts, their Chinese counterparts take advantage of the unilateral sanctions.

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Opening Russia

Ed Gerwin | Posted 04.02.2012

Read More: Uruguay, Hugo Chavez, Venezuela, President Obama, Michael McFaul, Jobs, Democracy, Congress, United States, China, Ukraine, Foreign Policy, Pntr, World Trade Organization, Human Rights, Trade, Russia, Vladimir Putin, Jackson-Vanik, Business News
Ed Gerwin

Bringing democratic reform to Russia will require concerted effort by the United States, our allies, NGOs, and the Russian people. Opening Russia's market under WTO rules can play a useful role in this effort.

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American Jobs and the Never Ending Politics of the Cold War

Edward Goldberg | Posted 04.02.2012

Read More: Russia, U.S. Economy, Unemployment, Trade Deficit, Trade Deals, Trade, Economy, Economic Crisis, Free Trade, Cold War, Tarriffs, Business News
Edward Goldberg

U.S. trade policy needs to be based on what is good for the U.S. economy and U.S. job growth. And Congress needs to recognize that in an ever more globalized world, using trade as a political instrument to fight yesterday's wars is at best self defeating.

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Lets Talk About Trade

Efraim Chalamish | Posted 05.29.2012

Read More: International Trade, Global Trade, Subsidies, Wto, WTO China, Trade, Business News
Efraim Chalamish

Trade policies are not a sexy business. Customs, anti-dumping, subsidies are just some of the concepts international investors are trying to avoid. Yet, recent weeks reminded all of us that trade can make headlines.

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There Is Consensus on How to Fix Economy

Dave Johnson | Posted 05.19.2012

Read More: Taxes, Infrastructure, Jobs, Trade, Recession, Economy, Ows, Business News
Dave Johnson

We have to reverse the corporate/conservative, anti-government, pro-1% policies that started about 35 years ago.

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'Green News Report' - March 15, 2012

Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen | Posted 05.15.2012

Read More: Floods, Gas Prices, Green Jobs, Fracking, Australia, George W. Bush, Regulation, Green News Report, Pollution, Green Energy, Coal, Climate Scientists, Video, Rising Sea Level, 2012 Presidential Election, Fossil Fuels, Big Oil, Climate Science, Gop, Climate Change Denial, Climate Change, Global Warming Deniers, Air Pollution, Solar Power, Global Warming, Energy, Fukushima, Ohio, Carbon Dioxide, Environmentalism, Subsidies, Barack Obama, Water Pollution, BRAD BLOG, Water, Green News, Sustainability, Ocean Acidification, Oceans, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Extreme Weather, Ozone, Republicans, Newt Gingrich, Senate, Joe Bastardi, Keystone XL Pipeline, Fox News, BP Oil Spill, Pipeline, Tar Sands, Oil Spill, Wto, World Trade Organization, Trade, Rare Earth Elements, China, Green News
Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen

TWITTER: @GreenNewsReport. The 'GNR' is also now available on your cell phone via Stitcher Radio's mobile app!. IN TODAY'S RADIO REPORT: War with ...

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You Want to Bring the Old Economy Back? Really?

Dave Johnson | Posted 05.12.2012

Read More: Jobs, Climate, Trade, 1%, Plutocracy, Economic Crisis, Economy, Financial Crisis, US Economy, Business News
Dave Johnson

Democrats have to be perceived as actually fighting for the interests of the 99%. The way to be perceived as doing this is to actually do it

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