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Wall Street Treasury Complex is the Problem

Diane Francis | Posted 10.15.2009 | Business

Read More: U.S. Economy, FInancial Markets, Trade, Economy, Stock Market, Banking Crisis, Banks, Free Trade, Protectionism, Capitalism, Barack Obama, Business News
Diane Francis

An examination of the causes of the financial meltdown and proposals for reform to prevent new catastrophic bubbles from forming and bursting.

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Why Our Jobs Crisis From Hell Could Last Decades

Les Leopold | Posted 10.08.2009 | Business

Read More: JP Morgan Chase, Goldman Sachs, Unemployment, Bailout, Income Inequality, Economic Crisis, Bank of America, Financial Crisis, Protectionism, China, Bruce Springsteen, Business News
Les Leopold

Remarkably, the America of 2010 is exporting raw materials and importing high tech renewable energy products. And this is happening less than 100 miles from Redmond, the home of Microsoft.

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There Will Be No Trade War

Gilbert B. Kaplan | Posted 10.05.2009 | Business

Read More: Smoot-Hawley, International Trade, Free Trade, Obama Administration, The Great Depression, Protectionism, China, Tires, Dorkings, Wto, China Tire Tariff Wto, Business News
Gilbert B. Kaplan

If you were going to start a trade war against the United States, it is unlikely that your first salvo would be on chicken parts, or as the Chinese rather charmingly first announced, on dorkings.

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Obama and China: Vandalism or Vision

Robert L. Borosage | Posted 09.30.2009 | Politics

Read More: Protectionism, G-20, China, Trade, Obama Economics, Politics News
Robert L. Borosage

If the U.S. increases exports, mercantilist nations like China, Germany and Japan will have to save less and spend more, import more and export less.

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Enforcing Trade Rules Shocks "The Village"

Dave Johnson | Posted 09.24.2009 | Business

Read More: Protectionism, China, Trade, Business News
Dave Johnson

It seems that after eight years of general lawlessness we're at a point where it is expected that those with power can do anything they want regardless of agreements or laws.

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Pittsburgh Model Dramatizes Lessons for G-20 Summit

Gary Shapiro | Posted 09.23.2009 | Business

Read More: Gary Shapiro, Debt, Deficit, Innovation Movement, Consumer-Electronics-Association, Bailout, g20, Manufacturing, Free Trade, Innovation, Cea, Protectionism, Pittsburgh, Detroit, Business News
Gary Shapiro

Pittsburgh's experience offers a road map for American cities adjusting to manufacturing downturns and the new realities of the modern global economy.

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The G-20 Summit: Lessons from Pittsburgh

Eric Lotke | Posted 09.21.2009 | Politics

Read More: Manufacturing, U.S. Economy, Free Trade, Protectionism, G-20 Summit, Economy, Economic Crisis, Politics News
Eric Lotke

The G-20 Summit in Pittsburgh provides an opportunity for Americans to move beyond shibboleths of free trade and protectionism and to question the true functioning of the market.

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G20 Summit Pittsburgh: Protectionism Rising Concern For Attendees

AP | By TOM RAUM | Posted 09.21.2009 | Business

Read More: G20 Summit, World Trade Organization, g20 Pittsburgh, Protectionism, g20, China, Bank Pay, Business News

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Myths of Protectionism Are Spread to Exploit Workers and the Environment

Dave Johnson | Posted 09.18.2009 | Business

Read More: Fair Trade, Free Trade, Manufacturing, Protectionism, Trade, Business News
Dave Johnson

Why, exactly, is protectionism so bad? Why can't we have fair trade that lifts workers and protects the environment instead of unregulated free trade that exploits workers and the environment?

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Myths of Protectionism: Stories You Are Likely to Hear in the Wake of the China Tire Trade Tariff Case

Dave Johnson | Posted 11.14.2009 | Business

Read More: Manufacturing, Protectionism, Trade, China Tires Tariffs, China Tires, Business News
Dave Johnson

President Obama has decided to enforce our trade laws and imposed a three year tariff on Chinese tires. I suspect the country is about to witness a corporate hissy fit.

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China Tariffs: Beijing Takes Aim At U.S. Auto Parts And Chicken Products

L.A. Times | David Pierson | Posted 11.13.2009 | Business

Read More: Importing, Tires From China, Chicken Products, Auto Parts, Tax Imports, Trade, Trade Deficit, Protectionism, Tariffs, China, Chinese Tires, Economy, Business News

China fired back against proposed tariffs on Chinese tires imported to the United States by announcing Sunday that an anti-dumping and anti-subsidies ...

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Who Opposes American Manufacturing? II

Dave Johnson | Posted 10.19.2009 | Business

Read More: Manufacturing, Protectionism, Trade, China Tire Case, Business News
Dave Johnson

A country's economic power comes from manufacturing. But while other countries have industrial policies, America has a de-industrialization policy.

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Forging a Green Economic Recovery at Home

Edwin D. Hill | Posted 09.21.2009 | Politics

Read More: General Electric, American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, Green Jobs, Impact Act, Sherrod Brown, Renewable Energy, United Steelworkers, Manufacturing, Free Trade, Protectionism, China, Barack Obama, International-Brotherhood-of-Electrical-Workers, Peru Free Trade Agreement, Kentucky, Climate Change, Leo Gerard, Ibew, China Economy, Politics News
Edwin D. Hill

Manufacturing is moving into a new, energy-efficient stage, but it's in danger of leaving out the American worker altogether without an aggressive approach in Washington to encourage its domestic growth.

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U.S. War on Drugs Is Killing Mexico

Diane Francis | Posted 09.11.2009 | World

Read More: Drug Trafficking, Tourism, Passport Requirements, Visa, Crime, Marijuana, Mexico, Illegal Immigration, Immigration, Canada, Drugs, War on Drugs, Protectionism, Legalize Marijuana, World News
Diane Francis

The Three Amigos Summit which just ended -- U.S., Canada and Mexico -- is the private gathering of North America's dysfunctional family.

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Misuse Of The Words Protectionism And Trade Is Making Us Poorer

Dave Johnson | Posted 09.03.2009 | Politics

Read More: American Manufacturing, Protectionism, Trade, Outsourcing, Free Trade, Indusrtial Policy, Politics News
Dave Johnson

Making things in America is crucially important to our future economy. But it matters as much that we use the right words as that we explore the right ideas and policies.

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Trucks, Drugs and NAFTA: Time for Congress to do the Right Thing

Gary Shapiro | Posted 08.29.2009 | Business

Read More: Bolivia, Hugo Chavez, Latin America, Gary Shapiro, Agriculture, Manufacturing, Free Trade, Drugs, Congress, Protectionism, Barack Obama, Trade War, Transportation, Nafta, Colombia, Colombia Free Trade, Panama, Honduras, Cea, Consumer Electronics Association, Senate, Panama Free Trade, Nicaragua, Business News
Gary Shapiro

Mexico did not take lightly to the U.S. closing our border to their trucks -- that's why they're called "trade wars."

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Will Protectionism Protect Our Workers?

Danny Schechter | Posted 08.15.2009 | Business

Read More: Green Economy, United Steelworkers, Leo Gerard, Protectionism, China, Trade Policy, Tarriffs, Business News
Danny Schechter

Many in China already resent US economic bullying and blame Wall Street for selling them junk loans and infected financial products that have caused vast economic losses.

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China May Ban US Chicken: WSJ

Wall Street Journal | Posted 08.01.2009 | World

Read More: US China Relations, Global Economy, US China, Foreign Affairs, United States Protectionism, United States, Protectionism, China Us, China Chicken Ban, China, Advocacy, China Protectionism, World News

China is expected to ban imports of U.S. chicken in coming days, a move likely to deliver a blow to the struggling American chicken industry and escal...

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Liberal Groups Vexed By Obama Knocking Climate Bill

The Plumline | Posted 07.30.2009 | Politics

Read More: World Trade Organization, Public Citizen, Trade, Liberals, Cap-and-Trade, Climate Change, President Obama, Environment, Obama, Protectionism, Waxman-Markey Climate Bill, Paul Krugman, Barack Obama, Politics News

Liberal groups allied with the White House are fuming -- mostly in private -- about some comments President Obama made yesterday attacking a provision...

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Fear and Looting in America: Krugman Takes on Globalization?

Les Leopold | Posted 06.15.2009 | Green

Read More: Unemployment, United Steelworkers, Free Trade, Financial Crisis, Polar Bears, Paul Krugman, Protectionism, Global Warming, China, Green News
Les Leopold

We need to a new way to look at protectionism -- one that both protects the globe and that protects jobs.

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Outsourcing Top Management: The Lesson of Fiat-Chrysler

Dean Baker | Posted 06.04.2009 | Business

Read More: Free Trade, Auto Bailout, Federal Bailouts, Wall Street Protectionism, Fiat, Chrysler Bailout, Protectionism, Chrysler, Business News
Dean Baker

The economists and the media somehow failed to notice that professionals were intentionally sheltered from international competition and instead just trumpeted them as the winners in the global economy.

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Silent Conspiracies

Sen. Fritz Hollings | Posted 05.28.2009 | Politics

Read More: Free Trade, Auto Bailout, Protectionism, Trade War, Exports, Politics News
Sen. Fritz Hollings

The president and Congress continue in their conspiracy of free trade in order to get the campaign contributions from Corporate America and the financial community.

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Challenging Conventional Wisdom

Sen. Fritz Hollings | Posted 05.17.2009 | Politics

Read More: Iraq War, International Trade, Marshall Plan, Drug War, Globalization, Free Trade, Manufacturing, Protectionism, Afghanistan War, Afghanistan, Hanoi-Vietnam, Vietnam, Mexico, Iraq, Politics News
Sen. Fritz Hollings

I don't think we'll ever teach Afghan warlords to like democracy and grow cotton instead of poppies.

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G-20: I See England, I See France...

Rick Horowitz | Posted 05.04.2009 | World

Read More: Gordon Brown, Dmitri Medvedev, Michelle Obama, London Summit, G-20 Summit, Hu Jintao, Angela Merkel, Protectionism, Economic Stimuls, Group of 20, Barack Obama, Global Economic Crisis, Nicolas Sarkozy, g20, Obama and Queen Elizabeth, France, World News
Rick Horowitz

First the skinny guy shakes everybody's hand -- then he tells us he's got a cold!

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Advice to Obama at G-20 Summit: A Rising Tide Lifts All Boats

Gary Shapiro | Posted 05.01.2009 | Business

Read More: John F. Kennedy, President Obama, G20 Summit, Trade and Poverty, Gary Shapiro, Health Care Kiosk, Colombia, Obama, Barack Obama, Obama and Op-Ed, Trade at Hand, Emerging Markets, Progressive, Peru, South Korea, g20, Free Trade, Protectionism, President Kennedy, A Rising Tide Lifts All Boats, Cea, Jfk, Telemedicine, Free Trade Agreements, Consumer Electronics Association, Poverty, G-20, Business News
Gary Shapiro

I don't know precisely when progressives in this country gave up on free trade. Because when they did, without perhaps even realizing it, they turned their backs on the developing world.

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