There is a lot of fanfare today about the success of GM to date as it turns around the bankruptcy of a couple years ago. Let’s look at the nature…

by Rebecca Wilder EA Infernal Devaluation Progressing The EU answer to rebalancing portfolio and trade flows within the Euro area (EA) without currency devaluation is recession and deflation. They call…

…to Yglesias’s numbers for “downstream services.” I look at the 80s a period of a strongly overvalued dollar and a ballooning trade deficit. I find employment in “Trade Transportation and…

…of trade. In *theory* there are no type 4 trades which are known to be type 4 trades. Obviously in reality there are such trades. Now, obviously, trading volumes can…

…for free capital flows came down to the classic theory of comparative advantage, as though trade in dollars was essentially similar to trade in widgets. In reality, however, the funds…

By Spencer, Every month the various economic indicators are released and various people comment on them– usually in isolation. So I thought it would be informative to look at some…

…it’s trade-predicted value and the balance-of-trade moved more into balance. Japan charges zero interest to borrow money, which investors borrow and then sell the Yen by the bucket full to…

Executive Order 12866 of 1993 has been amended and shaped to include RPO (Regulatory Policy Officers) positions that in general have strengthened oversight since January, 2007. The issues could be…

…its second-largest employer. More than a few people in Washington initially dismissed as absurd the idea that the trade organization could claim jurisdiction over something as basic as a country’s…

…restrict trade by President Reagan who like George W. Bush preached free trade but ignored his own CEA’s advice to also practice it. If I had the thankless task of…