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• Chavez-Thompson Running for Lt. Gov. of Texas

  
  AFL-CIO NOW BLOG — Authority: 615
        Big shout out to AFL-CIO Executive Vice President Emerita Linda Chavez-Thompson who yesterday announced her candidacy  for lieutenant governor of Texas, her home state. The “Draft Linda” movement swept through Texas, pulling our much-admired former executive vice president out of ...
  15 hours ago

• Once Again Unions Find a Pliant Judge to do Their Bidding

  
  Publius Forum — Authority: 454
  -By Warner Todd HustonIn another example of why unions are antithetical to good government, a pliant, left-wing judge in California has ruled that the Schwarzenegger Administration cannot furlough state workers that belong to three powerful public employees unions.Governor Schwarzenegger has been battling to cut his ...
  19 hours ago

• Trafford Publishing Presents: ‘Globalization from Genesis to Geneva’

  
  eReleases Press Release Headlines — Authority: 149
  
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• Two major tax reforms to reduce transaction costs for exporters significantly

  
  LEGAL & FINANCIAL UPDATES FROM TAX GURU — Authority: 157
  Two major tax reforms due by next year promise to reduce transaction costs for exporters significantly. A simpler income-tax regime will put more money in the hands of businesses, which can invest these as they consider best. The Goods and Services... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website www.taxguru.in ...
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• Asia one more area Obama has failed to engage

  
  RedState — Authority: 777
  I have been working with Joshua Treviño as an editor at Malaysia Matters (a site dedicated to tracking news and events in Malaysia from an American perspective).  In this role, I have learned a great deal about the importance of Asia economically and strategically.  Building on that, I have an article at the ...
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• Free Trade Area (FTA) between ASEAN and China

  
  dailyQi — Authority: 137
  On January 1, 2010, the world welcomed the new year and the dawning of this century’s second decade. The ASEAN (Association of Southeast Asian Nations) countries and China , however, have more on their plates as the free-trade agreement between them, eight years in the making, came into effect. The Free Trade ...
  2 days ago

• Urban Indians lead the world in support of free markets

  
  The Acorn — Authority: 547
  Really. Ajay Shah draws attention to some very interesting findings from a Pew Global survey. To the question “ whether you completely agree, mostly agree, mostly disagree or completely disagree with the following statements: Most people are better off in a free market economy, even though some people are rich ...
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• What One Russian Was Worth and His Thank You for the Purchase

  
  Publius Forum — Authority: 454
  -By Warner Todd HustonOn a previous episode of Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Conservatism, Babe and I interviews the delightful Leon Weinstein, Russian immigrant and capitalist booster.Leon has made a few YouTube videos that are well worth the time to watch as they teach a good lesson on why the socialist/communist ...
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• Avatar is real: Pandora is in Central and South America

  
  Carlos in DC — Authority: 117
  
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• Will North Koreas Version Of The Berlin Wall Fall In 2010?

  
  prudent investor newsletters — Authority: 128
  [my regular financial market analysis will resume next week] A ‘capitalist crisis’ had been speciously described as the main cause of the recent global financial crisis centered on the US. This ‘failure of capitalism’ had been utilized by the progressive persuasion to justify on more regulation and call ...
  3 days ago

• I think the Chinese have both a short and a long-term strategy.

  
  InvestmentWatch — Authority: 158
  Selling “cheap” low-end goods to the US to gain foreign exchange is part of that short-term strategy. They know they could not compete with the US, Germany, and Japan in the high-end sector for now. With the start of the China-ASEAN Free Trade Agreement beginning 01 January 2010, China is posed to gobble up that ...
  3 days ago

• Free Trade Takes Effect Between China and ASEAN Nations

  
  Daily Contributor — Authority: 534
  The China-ASEAN Free Trade Area (ACFTA) took effect Friday, January 1, 2010. The free trade agreement between the 11 nations targets to reduce tariff rates to zero. A tariff is a duty imposed on goods when they are moved across a political boundary. The free trade area became the world’s largest free trade ...
  3 days ago

• A transatlantic free trade area?

  
  East Asia Forum — Authority: 533
  Author: Razeen Sally, ECIPE It is perhaps time to revive the idea of a transatlantic free trade area (TAFTA). This is the gist of two papers, one by ECIPE’s Fredrik Erixon and Gernot Pehnelt, the other by GEM-Sciences Po’s Patrick Messerlin and Erik van der Marel. A TAFTA initiative was floated in the 1990s, ...
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• Beef protests sour US-Taiwan ties

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 177
  Taiwan has been forced into a stand off with the US, its most important ally, by popular uproar over a deal reached two months ago to remove a ban on some American beef imports. Taiwan depends on the US for arms and protection against Chinese attack and has been hoping to negotiate a broad trade pact with Washington. ...
  5 days ago

• Bangladesh seeks greater trade ties to bridge deficit with India

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 731
  Dhaka, Jan 1 (IANS) Bangladesh has pitched for greater purchase of its goods by India to bridge the wide gap in bilateral trade ahead of the summit level talks this month in New Delhi.President Zillur Rahman Thursday mooted imports by India of readymade garments, jute and jute goods, leather and ceramic products while ...
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• Dubai Duty Free hits record sales high in 2009 after powerful late-year flourish

  
  Dubai Chronicle — Authority: 459
  Dubai Duty Free last night closed out 2009 with record annual sales of AED4.1 billion – some AED145 million or +3.7% ahead of the previous high set in 2008, reports The Moodie Report.“We are very happy,” Managing Director Colm McLoughlin told The Moodie Report just after midnight UAE time.The record sales ...
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• Two Americas: One Struggling, One Happy, Unionized, and in Government

  
  Publius Forum — Authority: 454
  -By Warner Todd HustonI know I’ve said it before, but unionism is antithetical to good government. It is impossible to have both unions and effective government in a democratic republic such as ours. Unions destroy good government, waste money at all levels and they move strictly against the best interests of the ...
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• Blending of tea for export by an industrial unit in SEZ area is a manufacturing activity which qualifies for exemption u/s 10A/10AA

  
  LEGAL & FINANCIAL UPDATES FROM TAX GURU — Authority: 157
  The short question that arises for consideration is whether blending and packing of tea for export in the industrial unit in the Special Economic Zone amount to manufacture or production of an article qualifying for exemption under Section 10A of... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website www.taxguru.in ...
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• Three for New Years

  
  The View from Taiwan — Authority: 128
  Three articles on Taiwan in different places for once give a glimpse of something other than the Ma Administrations spin. AP in Businessweek writes about DPP criticisms of the Administrations China policy: Taiwans main opposition Democratic Progressive Party said Tuesday the Taiwanese government has failed to ...
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• BLOOD MONEY

  
  AGAINST THE CURRENT — Authority: 122
  Were often reminded by our politicians of how important China supposedly is to New Zealands economic health. It doesnt matter whether its a National or Labour politician, the message is always the same - China is our new best friend. This is what Trade Minister Tim Groser had to say on October 1 to mark the first ...
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