Archive Sep 2010

Feb 2010
• Review of Baumol and Gomory's book: Global Trade and Conflicting National Interests
• Germany, Greece, the Euro, and the Gold Standard
• McCain's economic advisors cost him the Presidency and may cost him his Senate seat
• The Costly Obama Stimulus Is Not Working
• Pfizer moving R&D from Connecticut to China
• Obama giving US R&D to China - we're published in today's American Thinker
• A Review of W. Raymond Mills "Managing ForeignTrade"
• IMF figuring out capital inflows; U.S. still clueless
• Review of: Ha-Joon Chang, Bad Samaritans:The Myth of Free Trade
• China's not selling. China's Buying
• US Companies Required to move Research Centers to China
• Obama “trying to head off critics in Congress who think the administration is lying down in front of the Chinese”
• Ralph Gomory: Does America Need Manufacturing?
• "Playing Chicken with China" - we're published in today's American Thinker
• ABC News on Green Stimulus Jobs Going to China
• Restore American Jobs and Do It Quickly
• Bernanke starting to raise interest rates
• No growth in US goods exports to China in 2009
• Obama's Failing China Strategy
• Summers says everything is fine in our China relationship
• Richard Duncan, The Corruption of Capitalism: A strategy to rebalance the global economy and restore sustainable growth (Hong Kong: CLSA Books, 2009)
• Chinese Government and Obama are Playing Chicken
• Is the U.S. Economy Growing?
• Judith Stein: US government research funds should require that the developed products be produced here
• Kenneth R. Davis: Buffett Plan is "long overdue"
• Peter Morici's Currency Conversion Tax to End Mercantilism
January 2010


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• What's Up With That

  Wikipedia:

• [An] extensive argument for balanced trade, and a program to achieve balanced trade is presented in Trading Away Our Future, by Raymond Richman, Howard Richman and Jesse Richman. “A minimum standard for ensuring that trade does benefit all is that trade should be relatively in balance.” [Balanced Trade entry]

  Journal of Economic Literature:

• [Trading Away Our Future] Examines the costs and benefits of U.S. trade and tax policies. Discusses why trade deficits matter; root of the trade deficit; the “ostrich” and “eagles” attitudes; how to balance trade; taxation of capital gains; the real estate tax; the corporate income tax; solving the low savings problem; how to protect one’s assets; and a program for a strong America....

  Atlantic Economic Journal:

• In Trading Away Our Future   Richman ... advocates the immediate adoption of a set of public policy proposal designed to reduce the trade deficit and increase domestic savings.... the set of public policy proposals is a wake-up call... [February 17, 2009 review by T.H. Cate]