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Trade In Hew Hampshire
Looks like the debate over lobbyist-written trade policy is rearing its head in the New Hampshire primary: Edwards said he grew up with the same concerns that Duval has. He watched the mill that supported his hometown close. He said...
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On Trade, The Good, the Bad & the Ugly
Sorry for the light posting today, I'm in transit for most of the rest of the week. However, while I had a moment, I wanted to flag this from Bloomberg News. The good: "The House of Representatives voted for the...
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Bush Threatens to Veto Aid to Workers Harmed by Outsourcing
At the same time the White House is pushing to vastly expand the job-killing, wage-destroying NAFTA trade model, we get this from Bloomberg News (no link): "President George W. Bush may veto legislation to expand benefits for workers harmed by...
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Slowpoke: Cults of America - Featured Cartoon
http://www.workingforchange.com/comic.cfm?itemid=22436"> That David Sirota guy, who writes prominently on this site, likes to write about the problematic side of an obsessive "free trade" philosophy. So we decided to give the other side of the story -- the positive side...
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SECRET TRADE DEAL - DAY 6: Senator Says K Street Getting "Wink & Nod" From Bush
This is another in a series of ongoing posts following the announcement of a secret free trade deal on May 10, 2007 between a handful of senior Democrats and the Bush administration. Six days after the press conference announcing a...
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Domestic Manufacturers Condemn Secret Trade Deal
This just came across the transom from the U.S. Business and Industry Council - the group that represents mid-sized domestic manufacturers: "The 'New Trade Policy' compromise announced yesterday by House Democratic leaders, House Republicans, and the Bush administration will become...
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Econ 101: "Comparative Advantage" vs. Manipulated Advantage
Alan Blinder has a very interesting op-ed in the Sunday Washington Post about "free" trade and job outsourcing. He has been attacked lately for being an economist who is actually pointing out that "free" trade may not be the perfect...
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New Report Shows Massive Job Losses From China PNTR
The good folks over at the Economic Policy Institute have a new state-by-state report documenting how many net jobs have been lost thanks to the China free trade pact rammed through Congress by the Clinton administration and K Street with...
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Things For Progressives To Worry About
As if you didn't need more to worry about, here are a few things progressives should be fretting over as we head into spring....
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Rubinomics, Bare-Knuckled Politics & The Pressure On Montana's Senior Democrat
The sixth and final entry in a series of live blogs from the international economic summit in Butte, Montana I'm now just back to Helena after Citigroup executive Bob Rubin's speech to the International Economic Summit in Butte, Montana. Rubin's...
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Baucus & Rubin Dodge Direct, Simple Questions On Trade
The fifth in a series of live blogs from the international economic summit in Butte, Montana At a press conference with Sen. Max Baucus (D) and Citigroup executive Bob Rubin that concluded just moments ago, I had the chance to...
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If Bernanke's In Butte, It’s A Good Sign The Establishment’s Scared
The fourth in a series of live blogs from the international economic summit in Butte, Montana Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke’s speech to the International Economic Summit here in Butte, Montana was not newsworthy for its content – it was...
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Reading the Trade Talking Points
The third in a series of live blogs from the international economic summit in Butte, Montana Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke is now speaking here at the International Economic Summit in Butte, and I'm struck by how much his speech...
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Making the Chairman of the Business Roundtable Into A Babbling Ball of Incoherence
The second in a series of live blogs from the international economic summit in Butte, Montana We just heard from Terry McGraw, the head of McGraw-Hill and chairman of the Business Roundtable - the same Business Roundtable that is lobbying...
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Questioning the Planet's Richest Man To His Face
The first in a series of live blogs from the international economic summit in Butte, Montana It's not everyday you get to stand up in front of 2,000 people and challenge the statements of the richest man on the planet...
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