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WTO GATS and strategies of regional hubs Part 1

…lower cost. But rising wages for programmers here, a strengthening currency and companies’ need for workers in their clients’ time zones or for workers who speak languages other than English…

Consumption: Full Steam Ahead

…the following: The U.S. Census Bureau announced today that advance estimates of U.S. retail and food services sales for January, adjusted for seasonal variation and holiday and trading-day differences, but…

Dark Matter: Tamny v. Feldstein

…Industrial Average trading at levels nearly four-times higher than when Feldstein initially sounded the alarm, the U.S. economy is still somehow imperiled as a result of investor interest in our…

Abramoff Cuts Deal

…myth that Abramoff’s corruption was bipartisan: Jack Abramoff represented the most flamboyant and extreme example of a brand of influence trading that flourished after the Republican takeover of the House…

Wrong Decisions

…to like to joke that it was trading Sammy Sosa. You’ve looked back before 9/11 for what mistakes might have been made. After 9/11, what would your biggest mistake be,…

Republicans: Above the Law

…DeLay, Bill Frist, Karl Rove, and Scooter Libby. I guess Mr. Kristol does not consider such trivial matters as insider trading and the outing of CIA agents to be crimes….

Money Illusion at the National Review

…expansion will lead to faster growth for our trading partners. Whether faster U.S. monetary growth leads to an increase or a decrease in foreign aggregate demand growth depends on the…