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The Race for Global Trade Reform

23 hours ago ago from Above the Fold | Music, Video, MP3 | MPLS

The year 2009 will go down in history as a moment of great global insecurity. Millions of citizens lost their jobs. Many more lost their savings. Many of the development gains of the last decade vanished so began the 7th World Trade Organization Ministerial Conference in Geneva, Switzerland on November 30th. Days earlier, CNN reported dozens of arrests, as the Black Bloc in Geneva allegedly burned 4 cars and vandalized several buildings in ...

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Classic Cola: The Myth of Cost Overruns

8 hours ago ago from Publicola

Next month marks PubliCola’s one-year anniversary. Throughout December, we’re going to be re-posting our favorite Cola articles from our first 12 months. Yesterday, we featured a piece by FoodNerd, AKA Lady Bird , from early September, highlighting some of the awesome dining options along the (then-new) light rail route. Today, we're reposting a piece LawNerd wrote back in October , arguing that the state has no legal authority to ...

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Social Democracy in COPE’s Context

23 hours ago ago from the ChirpRoom

I read an insightful blog piece by Marius Redelinghuys about the Congress of the People's (COPE) ideological advancement, if one could call it that. The political party started out with an ideology known as progressivism', which left political analysts and ordinary citizens scratching their heads. What type of progressive party would they be? Economically or socially progressive? People might have wondered if their new ideology was a nice way ...

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A Recommended Source for Data On Foreign Trade

13 hours ago ago from Micheline Maynard

BusinessJournalism.org , the web site run by the National Center for Business Journalism at Arizona State, cites The Selling of the American Economy as a source for data on foreign trade. In her article, Pam Luecke says, For more recent inspiration, I’d recommend the 2009 book by New York Times reporter Micheline Maynard, “The Selling of the American Economy: How Foreign Companies are Remaking the American Dream.” Unlike (Lou) Dobbs, who ...

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Taiwan-U.S. trade talks might not reopen in January: MOEA

19 hours ago ago from Taiwan Today News

Taipei, Dec. 18 (CNA) The Ministry of Economic Affairs (MOEA) said Friday that although a senior U.S. Trade official visited Taiwan last week to discuss various economic and trade issues, it is difficult to say whether bilateral trade talks will resume in January on the basis of the Trade and Investment Framework Agreement (TIFA). Tim Stratford, Assistant U.S. Trade Representative for China Affairs at the Office of the United States Trade ...

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