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  • December 21, 2006
    TownHall.com
    Consumption Versus Income
    … Enterprise Institute economists Aparna Mathur and Kevin Hassett on the right, and Jason Furman of the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities and Jared Bernstein of the Economic Policy Institute on the left. Calculating the annual growth of personal consumption …
    By Alan Reynolds
  • December 21, 2006
    South China Morning Post
    International Energy Blather
    … prices fixing — meaning no economic aid, no military assistance, no defense agreements, and no favors of any kind in any policy arena — then cartel members might think twice about keeping the market starved for oil over the long run. Unfortunately …
    By Jerry Taylor and Peter Van Doren
  • December 18, 2006
    Blog
    Antidumping Reformers Rejoice
    … cases would have resulted in the cases being dropped, and antidumping measures never having been imposed. So the change in policy is laudable and potentially very significant. I say “potentially” because zeroing reform remains incomplete. The policy change announced last …
    By Daniel J. Ikenson
  • December 18, 2006
    Blog
    The Good News behind This Morning’s Trade Deficit Report
    … as foreign aid worker remittances. The report is bound to throw more fuel on the debate over U.S. trade policy. Here’s how the Associated Press described the political fallout from the latest trade numbers: “Democrats, who took over …
    By Daniel Griswold
  • December 17, 2006
    Washington Times
    Nostalgic About 1974?
    … idea? There are no government data on “median wages,” so Mr. Orszag was probably referring to estimates from the Economic Policy Institute (EPI). Measured in 2005 dollars, the EPI estimate of the median wage fell from $13.31 in 1992 …
    By Alan Reynolds
  • December 14, 2006
    Blog
    Signs of Sanity at the International Trade Commission
    Today is a pretty good day, as far as trade policy goes. This morning, pursuant to a five‐​year “Sunset Review,” the U.S. International Trade Commission voted to revoke longstanding antidumping and countervailing duty restrictions against imported carbon steel …
    By Daniel J. Ikenson
  • December 14, 2006
    Australian Financial Review
    ‘New’ Congress simply More of the Same
    … government). So what can we expect from the new Congress and from divided government with regard to trade and economic policy? One might hope for gridlock as happened during the Clinton years. But today the stronger coalition between China hawks …
    By James A. Dorn
  • December 14, 2006
    The Wall Street Journal
    The Top 1%…of What?
    … share has been virtually flat since 1988, aside from a meaningless one‐​time jump in 1993 when, as the Economic Policy Institute noted, “a change in survey methodology led to a sharp rise in measured inequality.” Unlike the Census Bureau …
    By Alan Reynolds
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