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The U.S. – China Trade Deficit: Reason for Worry?

via Hoover Institution
Wednesday, December 19, 2007

Despite consumer concerns about “tainted” products from China, calls from media pundits to put tighter controls on Chinese imports, and presidential candidates from both parties stumping on related issues, Americans continue buying imports from China at record rates...

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The great dying

by Niall Fergusonvia Financial Times
Friday, December 14, 2007

"Just as some species become extinct in nature, some new financing techniques may prove to be less successful than others..."

Breaking with the Past

by Ramon H. Myers, Hsiao-ting Linvia Analysis
Friday, December 14, 2007

Few defeated political parties in wartime have the opportunity to make a fresh start in a new location. Even fewer can leave their failures behind and go on to succeed. The Chinese Nationalist Party (Kuomintang, KMT) was such an exception. In late 1949, having been almost destroyed by the Chinese Communists, the KMT relocated to Taiwan and reinvented itself. Not only did the KMT leadership build a new party that has endured for five decades, but it built a new polity on Taiwan that created economic prosperity and China’s first democracy.

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Mboweni's on track with bubbles-at-bay strategy

with Niall Fergusonvia Business Report (South Africa)
Monday, December 10, 2007

Recent events had "catapulted the world into the longer term", George Magnus, senior economic adviser to UBS, the world's largest wealth manager, said on Friday...

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Fair trade and free trade

by Russ Robertsvia Cafe Hayek
Tuesday, December 4, 2007

Here's the latest EconTalk: Mike Munger and I talk about fair trade coffee and free-trade agreements...

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Self-imposed sanctions

by Russ Robertsvia Cafe Hayek
Monday, December 3, 2007

Joan Robinson once said (anyone out there have a source?), just because your neighbor puts rocks in his harbors to keep out your boats, that doesn't mean it makes sense for you to do the same...

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Munger on Fair Trade and Free Trade

by Russ Robertsvia EconTalk
Monday, December 3, 2007

Mike Munger, frequent guest and longtime Econlib contributor, speaks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about fair trade coffee and free trade agreements...

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Letter: We can choose to stop endless economic growth

with Milton Friedmanvia Allentown Morning Call (PA)
Sunday, December 2, 2007

What is it with you and me that we dearly remember what we had when we were young, yet abandon it when we think it's too much effort to preserve?

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China trumps U.S. in economic woes

with Milton Friedmanvia Pioneer Press (MN)
Wednesday, November 28, 2007

The country faces difficult questions: Can bubbles in stock and real estate prices be deflated without hurting employment and output?

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Strive we must

with Milton Friedmanvia Dallas Morning News
Sunday, November 25, 2007

When the philosopher Satchel Paige warned us not to look back (because something might be gaining on us), he couldn't have imagined how prescient he was, even though his own career in baseball pointed the way to the world we would all someday inhabit...

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