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Skewed Distribution: Benefits of Joining the EU's Currency Regime
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A quick reference for those interested in economics as applied to trade/globalization and a few other issues that I follow day to day. Wednesday, May 23, 2007. Benefits of Joining the EU's Currency Regime. The costs of maintaining independent monetary policy were felt in the U.K. today as Honda's persident Takeo Fukui said that its UK plant would not be expanded due to currency uncertainty. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). A Guey Cool Blog. Daily Dos of Optimism. Surely You're Joking Mr. Feynman.
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Skewed Distribution: Consequences of Offshoring
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A quick reference for those interested in economics as applied to trade/globalization and a few other issues that I follow day to day. Sunday, May 6, 2007. Alan S. Blinder of Princeton University in today's Washington Post. I'm a free trader down to my toes. Always have been. Yet lately, I'm being treated as a heretic by many of my fellow economists. Why? Over the coming decades. In fact, I think offshoring may be the biggest political issue in economics for a generation. Why do I say much more? But I wo...
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Skewed Distribution: Blackstone's Rainmaker
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A quick reference for those interested in economics as applied to trade/globalization and a few other issues that I follow day to day. Saturday, May 26, 2007. When China's proposed bid to buy an American. Annually in recent years, is not helping China's public relations campaign either. Public opinion data show a majority (60 percent) believe China is an "unfair trading partner. This is what makes Blackstone's Antony Lueng. With the Chinese government holding a big steak, Lueng. A Guey Cool Blog. Daily D...
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Skewed Distribution: China and the U.S. Trade Deficit
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A quick reference for those interested in economics as applied to trade/globalization and a few other issues that I follow day to day. Tuesday, May 8, 2007. China and the U.S. Trade Deficit. Bob Samuelson outlines the problems associated with the U.S.'s trade deficit with China. It's designed to benefit China even if it harms its trading partners. Of the Peterson Institute thinks the yuan is 40 percent cheaper than it should be. The resulting competitive advantage props up exports, production and job...
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Skewed Distribution: Can the French Embrace "Creative Destruction"?
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A quick reference for those interested in economics as applied to trade/globalization and a few other issues that I follow day to day. Sunday, May 6, 2007. Can the French Embrace "Creative Destruction"? Win in France's national election. Here is Grant McCracken. That survives the revolution of the 18 th. To sneer at our high school French.). Cuisine, positively hide bound. Bad for France. But not, one would have thought, intolerable. If France were committed to the creative destruction that most ...But i...
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Skewed Distribution: Causes of Doha's Death
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A quick reference for those interested in economics as applied to trade/globalization and a few other issues that I follow day to day. Wednesday, May 23, 2007. Causes of Doha's Death. It was safe to say "Doha is dead" a year ago, but it is now even more safe. Zarkozy. Is now calling on Europe to "protect" its farmers. Here is my stab:. Argued that U.S. national security was intimately. Intertwined with open borders to trade. With underdeveloped economies. In his words:. And then in subsequent deals with ...
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Skewed Distribution: True Cost of the Iraq War
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A quick reference for those interested in economics as applied to trade/globalization and a few other issues that I follow day to day. Tuesday, May 8, 2007. True Cost of the Iraq War. Of Goldman has a new book on the historical costs of wars. The Washington Post's Lori Montgomery. Mentions the book and other issues related to the costs of Iraq and Afghanistan. Mart Total defense spending is 4 percent of gross domestic product.In contrast, defense spending ate up 14 percent of GDP at the height of the...
