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• Australian Professor in Japan makes case for protectionism against China

  
  Credit Writedowns — Authority: 682
  As I indicated earlier today, I generally see protectionism not as a second-best argument like Paul Krugman, but as something to avoid entirely.  Nevertheless, call for more protectionism are being heard everywhere.  Gregory Clark, an Australian Professor who is a vice president at Akita International University ...
  14 hours ago

• Americans say forget about works programs and go for protectionism

  
  Credit Writedowns — Authority: 682
  The most recent Gallup Poll on what Americans think is the best way to create jobs is a bit disheartening because it flies in the face of basic economics. Protectionism is the number one way Americans believe more jobs can be created.  This was true for Republicans, Independents and Democrats. The data suggest that ...
  22 hours ago

• Every once in a while…

  
  Upper Left — Authority: 434
  …theres a bright spot . Less than three months after President Obama enforced U.S. trade law and provided relief to the domestic tire industry in response to surging exports of tires from China, there are signs the tire industry is rebounding. Free traders might call it protectionism, but Ive never been able ...
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• Trade: a tragedy in the making?

  
  Telegraph.co.uk Finance Blog — Authority: 684
  This week, the World Trade Organization is holding its first major ministerial meeting since Hong Kong in 2005 as it seeks to find some way to get the Doha Round back on track. Now, I know those two words are likely to strike fear (or perhaps merely boredom) into many of your hearts. We’ve written [...]
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• Gaze into clean technology’s crystal ball for 2010

  
  Environment — Authority: 557
  Clean technology investors who have suffered through 2009 can find cheer in a new report by the Cleantech Group that gives its top ten predictions for 2010. The number one prediction: Private capital growth will recover, the research group said. The group believes that the amount of money from global venture ...
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• China says calls for it to revalue its currency motivated by protectionism

  
  Daily Telegraph | Telegraph.co.uk — Authority: 969
  The Chinese prime minister, Wen Jiabao, has hit out at the growing international pressure on Beijing to revalue its currency, the renminbi.
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• ClimateGate scandal, intellectual protectionism, and scientific fraud

  
  Trends Updates — Authority: 590
  The ClimateGate scandal involves the unauthorized and surprising disclosure of private email conversations that transpired among climate change scientists. This top echelon in climate science is comprised of respected individuals in the field. They are a small group of climate experts, noted and noteworthy, that has ...
  3 days ago

• Copenhagen 2009: Does It Really Matters?

  
  The DoFollow Network - Published news — Authority: 116
  November 30, 2009 - The future of mankind depends on the issue of the United Nation Climate Change Conference that will be held in Copenhagen from December 7 to December 18, affirms writer and environmentalist Bill McKibben , and many see this 12 days summit as a more important event than the 1945 Yalta ...
  3 days ago

• IANS Top Stories at 9

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 728
  NATIONALNew online CAT faces hiccups on day one - Roundup Moved at 1650 Shiv Sena struck dumb by Smita Thackeray’s plan to join Congress - Lead Moved at 1532Remove gun on our head to restart talks, India tells Pakistan - Moved at 1735Karat slams Trinamool demand for president’s rule in Bengal - Moved at 1709India ...
  4 days ago

• Op-Ed Contributor: A Growing Disaster

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 901
  Allowing more ethanol in gas won’t help consumers or the environment, and it is time for Congress and the Obama administration to stop propping up this discredited industry.
  5 days ago

• India warns against protectionism under a green label

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 728
  By Manish ChandPort-of-Spain, Nov 28 (IANS) Amid growing pressure from developed countries to accept carbon curbing targets, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Friday pushed for “an ambitious, substantive and equitable outcome” at the UN summit on climate change but warned developed countries against pursuing ...
  5 days ago

• Obama Administration to impose more tariffs against China

  
  United Liberty - Free Market - Individual Liberty - Limited Government — Authority: 562
  The Obama Administration is once again proving its protectionist tendencies by slapping tariffs on another Chinese made good: The United States has firmed up plans to impose up to 15 percent tariffs on imported Chinese steel pipes targeted for wideranging sanctions for alleged unfair subsidies. The Commerce ...
  5 days ago

• China Seen Facing Protectionist Backlash Next Year

  
  China Digital Times (CDT) — Authority: 633
  The EU Chamber of Commerce in China has announced that China may face a protectionist backlash because Chinese manufacturers, working at overcapacity, are dumping materials on the market: [Chamber president, Jörg Wuttke] was speaking at the introduction of a study into industrial overcapacity in China, a ...
  6 days ago

• The U.S. Dollar is now at parity with the Swiss Franc

  
  Credit Writedowns — Authority: 682
  Benchmark Currencies: 16 Dec 2008 Nearly one year later and the U.S. dollar is looking very weak – and not just against the Euro, but also against Sterling and Swissy, and especially against the Loonie and the Aussie Dollar.  Even the Japanese Yen is up against the U.S. Dollar. And of course, the Chinese Yuan ...
  1 week ago

• Last slide from my presentation at Peking University

  
  tomgpalmer.com — Authority: 426
  “Free Trade = Harmonious Society” and “Free Trade is the Best Policy”
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• Economic Policy FAIL

  
  The New Ledger Chequer-Board — Authority: 146
  I recognize that some contentions in the world are controversial, but some contentions should be accepted without much resistance, if any. For example, one hopes that it isn’t too much to argue that an American-imposed international tax on financial transactions –courtesy of the Democratic party–will simply ...
  1 week ago

• John McCain Gets America’s Rage

  
  Sense on Cents — Authority: 434
  Who does not respect John McCain? Despite what one may think of McCain’s political views, his personal character and courage are unquestioned. His “straight talk express” did not carry him to the White House, but it gained him the respect of many people from both sides of the aisle. Today, Senator McCain shares ...
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• BUY AMERICAN POT: A SPECIAL MESSAGE FROM THE AMGA

  
  War On You: Breaking Alternative News — Authority: 567
  BUY AMERICAN POT: A SPECIAL MESSAGE FROM THE AMGA 11-21-2009 • Reason.tv We all know that a lot of people are harmed by prohibition, but who benefits? Strangely enough, some of the biggest beneficiaries are the bootleggers. Sure, they take a big risk, but black marketeers don’t have to pay taxes, ...
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  Daily Telegraph | Telegraph.co.uk — Authority: 969
  
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• The Gravity and Magnetism of INTERNATIONALISM

  
  THE INTERNATIONALIST PAGE - Douglas Castle — Authority: 112
  The Gravity and Magnetism of INTERNATIONALISM Note: This article was written by Douglas Castle for THE INTERNATIONALIST PAGE ( http://TheInternationalistPage.blogspot.com ), where it was first published. This article may not be reproduced or re-published except in its entirety, with full attribution and ...
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