This Week's Economic Roundup
More business owners expect economy to improve in months ahead; trade gap with China widens. Read more
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This Week's Economic Roundup
Consumer sentiment drops slightly in November; analysts predict "solid start for retail sales" as holiday season approaches. Read more
Trade Gap Narrows
Dec. 12, 2006 -- Cheaper oil prices helped shrink the U.S. trade deficit by 8.4 percent to $58.9 billion in October, the sharpest decline... Read more
Trade Gap Widens in 2004
Feb. 12, 2005 -- While America's economy was one of the healthiest in 2004, so was its appetite for imports, sending the trade deficit to... Read more
Business Groups Rally Against Bush Administration
November 28, 2005 --In the wake of President Bush’s recent trip to Asia, a coalition of U.S. business groups is assailing the admini... Read more
Business Groups Rally Against Bush Administration
November 28, 2005 --In the wake of President Bush?s recent trip to Asia, a coalition of U.S. business groups is assailing the administrati... Read more
What About Japan?
FaxPoll results on prevailing sentiments about Japan. Read more
Garbage In, Gospel Out;
Last October 14th, with gloom gathering like a thunderhead over Wall Street, the government reported the trade deficit for August -- an abysmal $15.7 bill... Read more
Democrat Bruce Babbitt
An Arizona governor rejects both the industrial-policy gurus of the Left and the supply-siders of the Right. Meet the candidate of the radical center Read more
Protectionist Paranoia
Reagan and the Democrats either don't understand free trade or have started believing their own pap. Read more
Time-outs Are for Kids, Not Economies, Hillary
My wife and I and our two young boys recently made a hotel in Miami our home base for a week while our kids were out of school for Spring Break. When my f... Read more
Trade Deficit Falls in March
May 12, 2005 --The U.S. trade deficit fell to the lowest level in six months in March, thanks in part to a surge in U.S. exports of capita... Read more
Global Business
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Nation's Trade Deficit Widens to an All-Time High
Dec. 15, 2004 --The U.S. economy is breaking all kinds of dubious records this year. The Commerce Department delivered the latest bad news... Read more
Going Global, Part 22: Toyota Doth Protest Too Much
It's official: Toyota has surpassed GM as the top-selling automaker in the world, ending what the New York Times Read more
This Week's Economic Roundup
Small-business owners expect economy to slow down; retail sales inch higher. Read more
Trade Gap Narrows
Jan. 10, 2007 -- Cheaper imported oil and increased exports helped shrink the nation's trade deficit in November by 1 percent to $58.2 bi... Read more
Paranoia Or Realism?
I have just read "Protectionist Paranoia," by Michael Kinsley (Speaking Out, February), and I take direct issue with both the author's premises and conclu... Read more
Motion Without Movement
A diary of official Washington in the midst of an economic crisis Read more
U.S. to Consider Quotas on Chinese Textile Imports
Nov. 2, 2004 --With the presidential election coming down to the wire and several key states still up for grabs, the Bush administration l... Read more
A Lower Dollar Equals More Jobs
The U.S. economy is saddled with massive debt, deficits and trade imbalances. Many predict gloom and doom. But one upside to a weaker dollar is the boost... Read more
This Week’s Economic Roundup
Rising labor costs cut into worker productivity; factory orders take a tumble. Read more
How to Save Money, and Avoiding Survivor's Guilt
After the layoff. A Time Magazine article reports on the dangers of ... Read more
Using the Trade Deficit to Your Advantage
Jan. 14, 2005 --With America's record-breaking trade deficit at epic proportions, and with the outlook equally bleak for 2005, members of ... Read more
Trading Places: Small Businesses and Global Trade
Economist David L. Birch on the state of our global competitiveness and the surprising truth about small exporters. Read more
Is the U.S. Losing Its Economic Edge?
Not a chance, thanks to innovative entrepreneurs and curious consumers. Amar Bhidé on why the techno-nationalists have it all wrong. Read more
GDP Growth Slows in Second Quarter
August 30, 2004 -- The U.S. economy expanded at a slower pace in the second quarter than originally estimated thanks mostly to a larger t... Read more
Strange Customs
Is a rubber rat a toy or a practical joke? For businesses that import articles into the United States, this kind of hairsplitting can be worth money. Impo... Read more
How About American-Made iPhones?
Apple employs about 25,000 Americans from sea to shining sea. That sounds pretty good until you consider that the iPod/iPhone/iPad revolution has created ... Read more
Do Entrepreneurs Need Protection or Free Trade?
THE OBAMA AGENDA, IN DETAIL In speeches, Obama Read more
Taking The Trade Wars To Japan's Own Soil
A group of U.S. electronics companies have taken their fight to Japan. Talk about protectionism has dominated the headlines lately, but now many companies... Read more
Reagan's Secret Export Program
The government has a great program to match American companies to foreign export markets. Too bad the companies have never heard of it Read more
Out Of The Minds Of Babes
Almost half the patents issued last year by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office went to foreigners -- a far cry from the mere 11% that foreigners won a q... Read more
"overseas Customers Prefer Small Companies"
Last year, Maureen Reagan and Sell Overseas America helped 740 companies stake out a share of the world marketplace. Read more
North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)
Related Terms: Globalization The North American Fr... Read more
Going Global, Part 12: Trade Wars Abrewin'?
After weeks of hinting, the White House took its intellectual property beef with China to the World Trade Organization. U.S. Trade Representative Susan C.... Read more
Globalization
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This Week's Economic Roundup
President Bush praises economy and deficit reductions; business owners remain more pessimistic. Read more
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