Posted by Unknown | 6:00 PM

From the WaPo, China begins to push other countries around : From the Copenhagen climate change conference to Internet freedom to China'...

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Posted by Unknown | 6:05 AM

There are a lot of theories floating around out there in the Political Science field about why democracy either results from economic growth...

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Posted by Unknown | 11:05 AM

Blake Hounshell at FP Passport rumbles darkly about Obama's "mercantilist" SOTU address: Then there was his disappointing dis...

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Posted by Unknown | 5:09 AM

Spencer Ackerman thinks we're spending our defense dollars on the wrong equipment : It’s only a slight exaggeration to say we don’t use...

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Posted by Unknown | 6:18 AM

The Economist's blog has the best take on Obama's proposed discretionary spending freeze : From the standpoint of the purely econom...

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Posted by Unknown | 6:48 AM

Here's a Wall Street Journal op-ed I heartily agree with: In the years following the Declaration of Independence, the U.S. faced a grea...

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Posted by Unknown | 12:17 PM

China-watcher Gilles Sabrie writes : In my more than two decades in China, I have seldom seen the foreign business community more angry and ...

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Posted by Unknown | 6:10 AM

China is incensed over Hillary Clinton's criticism of their moral fibre: China rejected Friday a call by U.S. Secretary of State Hillar...

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Posted by Unknown | 6:47 AM

Matt Taibbi translates David Brooks : [ Brooks ]: Third, it is time to put the thorny issue of culture at the center of efforts to tackle gl...

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Posted by Unknown | 8:25 AM

Brad DeLong brings to my attention this article , which purports to show that America's "consumption binge" over the last coup...

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Posted by Unknown | 6:24 AM

I do a lot of bashing of the "Chicago School" of economics, as do a lot of other people. But it's important to remember that t...

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Posted by Unknown | 5:19 AM

Via Ry, Andrew Sullivan watches Glenn Beck and Sarah Palin chat and sees a rough beast slouching toward Bethlehem to be born: What you have...

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Posted by Unknown | 7:55 AM

News story of the day : Google is no longer complying with Chinese censorship, and is threatening to pull out of China entirely! Here's ...

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Posted by Unknown | 6:18 AM

Gasp. I'm about to do it. I'm about to defend conservative economic talking points against liberal criticisms that are well-grounded...

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Posted by Unknown | 7:55 AM

Robert Fogel, another of those darn pesky Economics Nobel Prize winners, has a new article out claiming that China's GDP will be $123 TR...

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