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ID:
162066
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ID:
145602
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THE NEED to fight protectionism may well stand as one of America’s clearest and most vital national interests. From the voting booth to the country’s foreign-policy establishment, action is needed to defend free trade and shift away from past, unnecessarily partisan trade policies. Protectionism has destroyed prosperity time and again. The most dramatic illustration emerges from the history of the Smoot-Hawley tariffs of the 1930s. Sen. Reed Smoot and Rep.
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ID:
133635
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2014.
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IT'S TOO SOON to pop the champagne corks. Europe, mired in gloom for years, still faces many high hurdles to resolve its crisis. Nonetheless, there are some auguries of prosperity that might invite a stockpiling of party hats and noisemakers. In December 2013, Ireland successfully emerged from its bailout, and Portugal followed this May. This verifiable progress represented a first for members of Europe's struggling periphery. But this news should only lift spirits so high. If these financial gains make anything clear, it is the need now to go beyond budget control to more fundamental and structural economic reform. Ireland's finance minister, Michael Noonan, summed up the situation well, characterizing his nation's emergence from the bailout as a "milestone," not the "end of the road." To secure their economic and financial future, Ireland, Portugal, the rest of Europe's periphery and France (which increasingly resembles the periphery) will have to reform long-standing labor, product and tax practices, and even industrial structures, to promote rather than impede organic growth. These nations must do nothing less than reshape the political-economic models under which they have operated for decades.
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ID:
171107
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Polls show a common complaint; that the system is rigged in favor of a self-serving business and government elite. While the public Cannot identify exactly how the system is rigged, it is nonetheless correct; elites in business and government collude regularly to run the American economy to their own advantages and have increasingly done so for decades.
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ID:
125097
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ID:
183293
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There is no reasonable mechanism that can guard against the boom and bust cycle, and certainly not those Washington put in place after the last crisis. Regulation is simply inadequate to the task.
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ID:
136720
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The dollar, left for dead only a short while ago, is on a roll, and it looks unstoppable for the foreseeable future.
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