…Instead, large trade deficits shift U.S. employment from trade-competing industries into nontrade-competing industries. Trade-competing industries create at least 50 percent more value added per employee, and spend more than three…

rdan Re-posted with permission from the author. Trade deficits resume upward climb Howard Richman The US trade statistics for April were just reported yesterday. The US trade deficits, overall, went…

…trade problem. Since after trade is established, each country has more of all goods (possibly the same amount of some and more of others, but less of none), both societies…

…rampant revolutionary robots. Krugman argues against Yang (and 1990s Krugman) that trade was very important. But there is an odd shift in time frames. The productivity slowdown noted in tweet…

…factors that prevent trade from balancing. There are multiple problems with this – not least that it vastly oversimplifies the drivers of trade deficits. Trade deficits occur when a country…

…Intel, Daniel Munch, Economist, American Farm Bureau Federation Seventy Percent of US Ag imports are grocery ready foods. Trade is a hot topic with a lot of uncertainty. Trade policy…

Via Naked Capitalism comes more comment on two major global trade agreements also discussed here at Angry Bear. I keep wondering when our national conversation will get around to acknowledging…

…labels had been irritated about putting out a Low or a Tin Machine, but they still bought trade ads and in-store promo material for them, they still made the records…

…high cost of American health care. I begin by explaining the origin and meaning of the “single payer” label. I will then describe the two defects in S 1129 in…

…on Capitol Hill and in the mainstream media. If he is confirmed by the Senate, his penchant for questioning conventional wisdom could unleash the FDA to pursue the positive public…