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Do U.S. EPA Regulations Actually Make Global Pollution Worse?

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Exporting pollution, one factory at a time. The Heritage Foundation recently published an article on how climate regulations designed to put an end to coal fired electric plants will significantly harm U.S. manufacturing (EPA’s Climate Regulations Will Harm American Manufacturing). This got me thinking, if EPA regulations drive manufacturing offshore, is it possible that by …

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Is China The Biggest Malinvestment Case Of All Time?

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On malinvestment from Seeking Alpha: “Malinvestment is one of the most useful concepts in Austrian economics. As Wikipedia puts it, malinvestment refers to “investments of firms being badly allocated due to what they assert to be an artificially low cost of credit and an unsustainable increase in money supply, often blamed on a central bank.” …

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US-China Trade Disputes Include The Kitchen Sink

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US-China trade disputes likely to rage on (via AFP) The recent bumper consignment of US-China trade disputes will be followed by boatload after boatload of new problems in coming years, experts predict, but that may be little cause for concern. The sheer range of products fought over by the world’s two largest economies is imposing, …

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The Economic and Geo-Political Implications of China-Centric Globalization

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A slightly different perspective on an article I published last week entitled: Manufacturing: America’s Next Industrial Evolution? On globalization from Thomas Palley: [repostus hash=7d37db8850fe1a81c1fad8413e47bc43 title=The%20Economic%20and%20Geo-Political%20Implications%20of%20China-Centric%20Globalization host=American%20Think%20Tank short=15BAf] Image courtesy of Stuart Miles

Guest Article: Keystone Pipeline Denial Drives Canada to China

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Manufacturing: America’s Next Industrial Evolution?

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By Holly A. Bell While I understand and accept the arguments for why globalization is a positive thing—higher wages and a growing global middle-class, lower cost of goods, and more goods available through specialization and trade (just to name a few)—an increasingly globalized manufacturing sector gives me cause for concern about competitive advantage in the …

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