Archive Aug 2010
- Rogoff predicts a U.S. Debt Crisis
- Morici expects good jobs report on Friday
- Lies, Damned Lies, and Chinese Statistics
- U.S. Corporations not helping China avoid Krugman's tariff
- Sidney Sherman traces start of America's decline to giving away our manufacturing to Asia
- Volcker is realistic about China
- Carbon tax: Sarcozy backs off, Sen. Kerry pushes forward.
- Peter Morici: Our current China policy is "appeasement"
- Krugman vs. Roach on US-China trade deficits
- Needed, a Cross-the-Board Tariff on Imports From China
- NY Times ignores China's R&D Rules
- Why Krugman's China Argument Matters
- Relative currency values are not static
- Obama's Trade Policy Agenda -- we're published in American Thinker this morning
- Krugman on China currency
- Revaluing the Yuan Will Not Balance Our Trade with China; Tariffs Will.
- 130 Congressmen sign letter to Treasury and Commerce Departments asking them to address Chinse currency manipulations
- Paul Krugman calls for 25% cross-the-board tariff on Chinese goods
- What is the real reason why the Obama administration won't do anything about China?
- Washington Post: There's nothing that we can do about Chinese mercantilism
- U.S. exports down in January
- GreenJobsGate
- The Obama Administration's Agenda to Balance Trade
- British exports see biggest fall in three years
- Heritage Foundation's Terry Miller claims Obama is a mercantilist
- Trading Away Productivity - Tonelson and Kearns in March 5 NY Times
- Unemployment report shows stagnant economy in February
- Prof. Ralph Gomory on Thomas Friedman's Innovation Delusion
- Commerce Dept. sets miniscule tariff on Chinese glossy paper
- Obama: 'It's very hard to ship windows from China'
- How not to export your way out of a recession
- Bipartisan group of fifteen senators call upon Commerce Department to investigate China's currency manipulations
- Scott Paul: The Onshoring Trend is Phony
- Greg Richards: "We must be much more aggressive with mercantilist countries in enforcing the rules of the road so that we protect out production and technology."
- Barr McClellan: "Malaise has returned"
- Krugman: "We're in a world in which mercantilism works"
- Obama Fiddles while Economy Falters - We're published in the American Thinker this morning
- Dan Drezner gives Obama an "F" for his trade agenda
- We are in the persistent depression predicted by Keynes
- Economists still failing to understand the effects of mercantilism
- Trade Deficit Saps 2nd Quarter Growth
- Geithner's job is to finance federal government expansion
- Some criticisms of our Scaled Tariff proposal
- Congress busts the budget to create 90,000 manufacturing jobs
- The Scaled Tariff would Resuscitate the U.S. Economy
- Fed: Possibly 5 or 6 years before sustainable growth
- Michael Pettis: U.S. is "likely to be swamped by a tsunami of foreign capital"
- Trade deficit rises again in May
- Geithner's Three Currency Manipulation Reports
- Obama Touts his Failing Trade Policy
- The Currency Reform Bill Won't Work: What Should Replace It and Why
- Steven Pearlstein calls for direct action against mercantilism
- Obama's G-20 Summit Setback -- we're published in American Thinker this morning
- Seven Options for Tackling Trade with China
- China riggles off the hook
- Why is Washington's China rhetoric growing harsher?
- Congress plans ineffective action against Chinese mercantilism
- Is the Chinese government moving against Taiwanese and Japanese corporations?
- Yves Smith: "the US example show how a naive posture towards trade may not help its citizens"
- Bruce Bartlett: We should raise taxes to lower our trade deficits
- AFL-CIO's Trumka asks Obama for stronger action on China
- 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
- Auctioning Import Certificates is consistent with WTO rules
- Pretend Free Trade vs. Balanced Trade -- The national debate kicked off on FoxNews yesterday
- China raises its tariff on some US nylon products to 96.5%
- Why we should tax interest earned by foreigners in the United States
- Congress passes foolish tax change that will increase US trade deficits
- China's temporary trade deficit largely due to stockpiling of commodities
- Geithner will Punt on China Currency
- Boston Globe spins nuclear summit as success
- Obama bows as Chinese President Hu stiffs him
- U.S. Trade Deficit up in February
- Smoot-Hawley did not cause the Great Depression
- Charleston Post Courier editorial advocates Buffett's Import Certificates to balance trade
- NPR explains Chinese currency manipulation
- Obama punts on Chinese currency manipulation
- USTR lists China's many barriers to American products
- Lies, Damn Lies, and Chinese Statistics
- U.S. Corporations not helping China avoid Krugman's tariff
- Sidney Sherman traces start of America's decline to giving away our manufacturing to Asia
- Volcker is realistic about China
- Carbon tax: Sarcozy backs off, Sen. Kerry pushes forward.
- Peter Morici: Our current China policy is "appeasement"
- China activates its Fifth Column
- Needed, a Cross-the-Board Tariff on Imports From China
- NY Times ignores China's R&D Rules
- Why Krugman's China Argument Matters
- Relative currency values are not static
- Obama's Trade Policy Agenda -- we're published in American Thinker this morning
- Krugman on China currency
- 130 Congressman sign letter to Treasury and Commerce Deptartments asking them to address Chinse currency manipulations
- Paul Krugman calls for 25% cross-the-board tariff on Chinese goods
- What is the real reason why the Obama administration won't do anything about China?
- Washington Post: There's nothing that we can do about Chinese mercantilism
- U.S. exports down in January
- GreenJobsGate
- British exports see biggest fall in three years
- Heritage Foundation's Terry Miller claims Obama is a mercantilist
- Trading Away Productivity - Tonelson and Kearns in March 5 NY Times
- Unemployment report shows stagnant economy in February
- Commerce Dept. sets miniscule tariff on Chinese glossy paper
- Obama: 'It's very hard to ship windows from China'
- Bipartisan group of fifteen senators call upon Commerce Department to investigate China's currency manipulations
- 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 "Toward Managed Trade"
- IMF Reconsiders Capital Controls Opposition
- Chin'a not selling. China's Buying
- US Companies Required to move Research Centers to China
- Nicholas Lardy: Obama "trying “trying to head off critics in Congress who think the administration is lying down in front of the Chinese"
- Peter Morici: Open Trade is Failing America
- "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
- No growth in US goods exports to China in 2009
- Obama's China strategy
- Summers says everything is fine in our China relationship
- China is Playing Chicken with Obama
- Judith Stein: US reliving the 70s when we gave away our steel industry
- Kenneth R. Davis: Buffett Plan would make the WTO irrelevant
- Peter Morici's Currency Conversion Tax to End Mercantilism
- Ha-Joon Chang takes on Free Trade in his book The Bad Samaritans
- Ralph Gomory: The time has come to take Warren Buffett's Import Certificates plan seriously
- Google Has Its Rosa Parks Moment -- I'm published by Seeking Alpha today
- Larry Ringler: Google's courage may turn the tide in our dealings with China
- Peter Navarro writes commentary on China's industrial espionage
- Doha Round stalls over US demand that India and China open their markets
- Peter Morici: Free Trade is Failing America
- Calla Wiemer misunderstands Chinese mercantilism in Wall Street Journal
- Levy Economics Institute's analysis of Import Certificates to balance trade
- US wins WTO appeal on China's non-tariff barriers against US movies, music, and games
- Prof. Krugman and Chinese Mercantilism
- China agrees to modify export subsidies
- American Economic Alert
- Angry Bear Blog
- Economy in Crisis
- Econbrowser
- Levy Economics Institute
- McKeever Institute
- Michael Pettis Blog
- Naked Capitalism
- Natural Born Conservative
- Science & Public Policy Inst.
- TradeReform.org
- 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]
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