rdan Child Labor Through the Strange Filter of Orthodox Economics Peter Dorman at Econospeak notes that our official line concerning child labor in international trade has little research to back…

rdan This chart from Calculated Risk shows the surplus and deficit as a per centage of GDP since 1960. Howard Rich mentioned in his post that the deficit was a…

…to the subcommittee on Terrorism, Nonproliferation, and Trade, “US Foreign Economic Policy in the Global Crisis.” Briefly this is what she is saying about banking and trade globally and how…

…the results of our “free trade” policies, which also were a particular set of rules for only capital through the World Trade Organization and trade agreements. “Free trade” and less…

rdan Some are making predictions for 2009. How about you….send or leave some for 2009. Update: I will archive these projections. Obviously the timing of some projections is pretty hard…

…“Can” explain or “does” explain? No weasel words here, please. We have become so efficient that we now have an enormous trade deficit? Stormy Rdan here: The argument rages here…

…for this privately owned company, whose teddies sell for up to 120 euros (190 dollars) each and which is trying to win back market share for its trademark bear with…

The NYT reports on WTO and Antigua: In an unusual ruling on Friday at the World Trade Organization, the Caribbean nation of Antigua won the right to violate copyright protections…

…heavily on traded goods than non-traded goods due to some items being exempted, then a VAT would be expected to cause a fall in both imports and exports. For a…

…our policymakers to “just say no”. No to diversions from free trade cloaked in the language of trade agreements. No to the pork in the highway bill. And no to…