rdan Naked Capitalism also points to the underlying inattention to US trade policy and our financial wizards. Last night, we reported that the International Institute of Finance was calling for…

…reducing the U.S.’s structural current account deficit (the trade deficit). The first is the forced write-off of bad assets, fiscal recapitalization of the banks, or debt-for-equity tactic, and it should…

…trade sales includes sales at all three level, manufacturing, wholesale and retail so it is reasonable to think of this as a proxy for real goods GDP. Note that the…

Save the Rustbelt sends this note working the end user as a reference, which is useful sometimes. The Downside of Increased Trade My wife, aka the world’s greatest nurse, worked…

…trade war.There’s no need for that. After all, trade wars are expensive and end up hurting everybody, while, as the Index proves year in and year out, free trade builds…

…make a significant contribution to real GDP growth. If you look at the real trade contribution to real gdp growth you find: 1950-59 -1.70 1960-69 +0.02 1970-79 +1.31 1980-89 -1.21…

…of the arm’s-length principle. Under that approach, the “correct” price is the price at which companies or people would be willing to trade if those traders were not economically related….

…deficit is causing the trade deficit (apart from any possible impacts on the value of the dollar) are proclaiming their ignorance. If you are thinking that Dean left off trade…

…administration trade policies, perhaps with the hope of shaming Republicans into adhering to their own free-trade rhetoric (especially in light of recent Bush administration moves); d) the BR is sending…

…been winners up until now, but may soon become losers from trade. On Jan. 1, World Trade Organization rules governing the global textile trade will undergo their biggest revision in…