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The Committee to Pillage America, Part 2

Posted by Unknown | 7:26 AM
In my last post, I talked about how a fairly small group of Republicans, initially headed by Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld, made "tri...
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Chinese trade policy: scourge of the poor

Posted by Unknown | 5:07 AM
Arvind Subramanian, writing in the Financial Times , explains why Chinese mercantilism hurts the poor in other developing countries: [T]he r...
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Concern over Chinese mercantilism is growing

Posted by Unknown | 7:24 AM
Gideon Rachman reports from Davos : Larry Summers...was careful to say that the US remains committed to open trade and can gain from globali...
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American civilization's zombie fetal conjoined twin

Posted by Unknown | 6:36 AM
Yglesias : Some folks were upset that I referred to a woman toting a Confederate flag yesterday as “pro-slavery” in a cheeky photo caption....
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Sinica continendus est

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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Why democracies (often) do better

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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The hideous spectre of dread export-promotion

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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Defense procurement: adventures in bad logic

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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Getting real about balancing the budget

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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But do Chinese hackers put henna in their beards?

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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The Chinese chicken comes home to roost

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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Let me keep punching your face or I won't be your friend any more

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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