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New Home Sales Fell To Six Month Low In August

AP | By DEREK KRAVITZ | Posted 11.26.2011

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WASHINGTON -- Sales of new homes fell to a six-month low in August. The fourth straight monthly decline during the peak buying season suggests the hou...

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WTO Panel Rules U.S. Tuna Labels Are Too Restrictive

AP | By JOHN HEILPRIN | Posted 11.15.2011

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GENEVA -- The popular "dolphin-safe" labels used to market tuna sold in the U.S. are illegal because they restrict too much trade, a World Trade Organ...

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U.S. Economy Performing Much Worse Than Earlier Reported

Sheldon Filger | Posted 10.01.2011

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Sheldon Filger

What conclusions can one draw from this miserable economic data? Two things come to mind.

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Obama's Chance to Lead on Trade

Will Marshall | Posted 05.25.2011

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Will Marshall

President Obama is in Seoul today for what promises to be a contentious meeting of the world's leading economic powers. He probably won't mollify Chin...

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China's Currency Manipulation: Flipping off America

Leo W. Gerard | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Currency Manipulation, C. Fred Bergsten, Trade Deficit, Renminbi, Illegal Subsidies, International Monetary Fund, Obama, Peterson Institute for International Economics, Currency Undervaluation, China, U.S. Treasury Department, U.S. Commerce Department, Economic Policy Institute, Wen Jiabao, Obama Administration, Business News
Leo W. Gerard

Earlier this year, the Obama administration asked China nicely to allow its currency value to float up naturally on international markets. China said it would. And then it didn't.

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What's Green, White and Blue? American Jobs

Leo W. Gerard | Posted 05.25.2011

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Leo W. Gerard

Additional wind farms mean more renewable energy freeing the U.S. from reliance on foreign oil. But there's no point in replacing imported foreign oil with imported wind turbines

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