Eavesdropping on Business-Speak, by John Stodder
Posted in Law, Politics, Professional Services, Trade on Apr 15th, 2008
When Sen. Hillary Clinton’s chief strategist, Mark Penn, stepped down from that role (but didn’t really go anywhere) because the PR firm he chairs, Burson-Marsteller, brought him to a meeting with its client, the Colombian government, the news analysis focused strictly on how Penn’s actions affected Clinton.
Politics is the screen through which we tend to […]
When Bill Clinton took office in 1992, it signified a bipartisan consensus on the benefits of free trade. His predecessor, George H.W. Bush had promoted the North American Free Trade Act (NAFTA), and Clinton picked up where Bush left off. Ross Perot and organized labor fought the deal, but lost after Perot’s famous thrashing […]
The National Association of Manufacturers blogger Carter Wood thinks he knows why free trade has become a dirty word in the political world:
The rise of anti-trade sentiment is a complex one, but certainly electoral politics play a key role. Organized labor’s place in the economy has slipped dramatically as membership numbers fall (7.4 percent of […]
Posted in Agriculture, Energy, Environment, Trade on Nov 7th, 2007
The biofuel kick, prompted by concern for global warming, is driving up the cost of food in developing nations to the point where the trade has become “a crime against humanity,” according to a UN official quoted in this story from the UK Guardian. Writer George Monbiot begins with a painful allusion to Jonathan […]
Posted in Dolan Media, Employees, Housing, Law, Trade on Oct 29th, 2007
If it helps the state of Louisiana to give a tax break for shopping, for movie tickets, and for theatrical productions, our blogger in New Orleans, Deon Roberts wants to know why not give a tax break to the real drivers of the Crescent City’s post-Katrina recovery — the people who decided to come back […]
Posted in Trade on Oct 17th, 2007
Can you imagine the outcry if this was how the U.S. negotiated its trade deals?
By the end of this year, 76 of the world’s poorest countries - across Africa, the Caribbean and the Pacific - are supposed to sign free trade deals called Economic Partnership Agreements (EPAs) with the EU.
They are being asked to get […]
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