Economia
Republicanos = Democratas?
Republicanos nunca foram libertários. Menos ainda em 2003...
Trechos: "The Republican Party has changed too, for the worse; it is becoming the party of big government. With the GOP in full control of the White House and both houses of Congress for the first time since 1953, nondefense discretionary spending was up an average of 9.3% in President Bush's first two years and 8.5% the fiscal year just ended. And that's before the $400 billion (think $2 trillion to $3 trillion) Medicare bill signed last week and the profligate $80 billion energy bill Mr. Bush will sign in the spring.
Both Republicans and Democrats now embrace protectionism. Mr. Bush imposed tariffs on Canadian lumber, and on imported steel --which saved 5,000 jobs in the steel production industry and cost 26,000 in steel consuming industries before they were repealed--and now on Chinese lingerie (Chinese bras are threatening America?). The Democratic Party has virtually abandoned free trade: other than Joe Lieberman, its presidential candidates are opposed to Nafta-type trade agreements. Free trade has been U.S. policy for generations, but the fundamental concept that people should be free to buy the goods they want from the supplier they choose is eroding.
And last week a wrongheaded U.S. Supreme Court decision upheld the McCain-Feingold campaign spending regulations and eroded the First Amendment's free speech clause. Federal courts and the FEC can now intervene in federal election campaigns, deciding what ads may and may not be run. And the decision invites Congress to continue its meddling."
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- China Número 1 Em Exportações
FRANKFURT (AFP) - – China and its population of 1.3 billion has overtaken Germany, population 82 million, as the world's top exporter, trade figures from the German national statistics office showed on Friday. From January to November, Chinese exports...
- Economia Internacional - Tarifas
The Economist sobre a nova tendencia de impor tarifas sobre o comércio: "... Governments using tariffs as trade weapons now have to calculate the consequences far more carefully. This is borne out, for example, by Mexico’s response this month to the...
- Bhagwati Sobre Os Mitos Protecionistas
Nada como ter a teoria correta e os dados na ponta da língua. Um dos maiores experts de comércio internacional, Jagdish Bhagwati, aponta os maiores mitos do protecionismo. O argumento completo está aqui. Myth 1: “The cost of protection and its flipside,...
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Se eu fosse Bush, leria isto Tyler Cowen tem boas sugestões para o segundo mandato de Bush. Aliás, se Kerry houvesse ganho, creio, os conselhos seriam os mesmos. 1. Eliminate all farm subsidies, tariffs, quotas and price supports. 2. Tell...
Economia
Republicanos = Democratas?
Republicanos nunca foram libertários. Menos ainda em 2003...
Trechos: "The Republican Party has changed too, for the worse; it is becoming the party of big government. With the GOP in full control of the White House and both houses of Congress for the first time since 1953, nondefense discretionary spending was up an average of 9.3% in President Bush's first two years and 8.5% the fiscal year just ended. And that's before the $400 billion (think $2 trillion to $3 trillion) Medicare bill signed last week and the profligate $80 billion energy bill Mr. Bush will sign in the spring.
Both Republicans and Democrats now embrace protectionism. Mr. Bush imposed tariffs on Canadian lumber, and on imported steel --which saved 5,000 jobs in the steel production industry and cost 26,000 in steel consuming industries before they were repealed--and now on Chinese lingerie (Chinese bras are threatening America?). The Democratic Party has virtually abandoned free trade: other than Joe Lieberman, its presidential candidates are opposed to Nafta-type trade agreements. Free trade has been U.S. policy for generations, but the fundamental concept that people should be free to buy the goods they want from the supplier they choose is eroding.
And last week a wrongheaded U.S. Supreme Court decision upheld the McCain-Feingold campaign spending regulations and eroded the First Amendment's free speech clause. Federal courts and the FEC can now intervene in federal election campaigns, deciding what ads may and may not be run. And the decision invites Congress to continue its meddling."
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- Tpp - Novo Bloco Econômico "trans-pacific Partnership"
Free-trade agreements - Opening up the Pacific MOST Americans have not heard of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), a free-trade area of countries dotted around the Pacific Ocean. They will soon. This weekend it has suddenly emerged as the most promising...
- China Número 1 Em Exportações
FRANKFURT (AFP) - – China and its population of 1.3 billion has overtaken Germany, population 82 million, as the world's top exporter, trade figures from the German national statistics office showed on Friday. From January to November, Chinese exports...
- Economia Internacional - Tarifas
The Economist sobre a nova tendencia de impor tarifas sobre o comércio: "... Governments using tariffs as trade weapons now have to calculate the consequences far more carefully. This is borne out, for example, by Mexico’s response this month to the...
- Bhagwati Sobre Os Mitos Protecionistas
Nada como ter a teoria correta e os dados na ponta da língua. Um dos maiores experts de comércio internacional, Jagdish Bhagwati, aponta os maiores mitos do protecionismo. O argumento completo está aqui. Myth 1: “The cost of protection and its flipside,...
-
Se eu fosse Bush, leria isto Tyler Cowen tem boas sugestões para o segundo mandato de Bush. Aliás, se Kerry houvesse ganho, creio, os conselhos seriam os mesmos. 1. Eliminate all farm subsidies, tariffs, quotas and price supports. 2. Tell...