Archive Sep 2010

May 2010
• Dramatic Changes Needed to Recover From This Depression, Not Earmarks
• The Euro: This Marriage Can't Be Saved -- We're published in American Thinker this morning
• Evans-Pritchard: Summers call for yet another stimulus package is a tacit admission that the economy is losing thrust
• AFL-CIO's Trumka asks Obama for stronger action on China
• Congress Is Responsible For This Recession; Not the Banks, Not Wall Street
• Michael Pettis predicts Europe will be moving toward a trade surplus
• Senate punts on Volcker Rule
• Wishful Thinking on House Prices and the Economy
• Rand Paul's victory in Kentucky puts the Federal Reserve on notice
• Tea Party's Contract from America endorses tax reform such as the FairTax
• "Le Tarpe" will not work any better than did TARP
• Book Review of Ian Fletcher's Important Book Attacking Free Trade
• The global warmers' shell fish hoax
• One or more members will have to exit the euro zone to restore competitiveness
• Trade Deficit up again in March
• China uses industrial policy is to keep out US products
• Construction Employment has first uptick since June 2007
• US Manufacturing Employment is Rising
• Auctioning Import Certificates is consistent with WTO rules
• The UN's hopeless war against Afghan opium - We're published today by Enter Stage Right
• Obama administration is impoverishing the U.S. middle class
April 2010
March 2010
February 2010
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]