From the The National University of Singapore (NUS) and the Asian Society of International Law (AsianSIL): The National University of Singapore (NUS) and the Asian Society of International Law (AsianSIL) are pleased to invite applications to attend the NUS Law School-AsianSIL Conference on Sovereign Wealth Funds: Governance and Regulation.

From a recent Economist article: REGGIE CHARLES, the chief executive of High Society Freeride, a maker of skis and snowboards based in Colorado, is keen to wrap his firm’s products in the Stars and Stripes. He is convinced that American customers will be more willing to buy the company’

I'm not sure this is the analogy I would have gone with: Ron is going to have the responsibility of working toward opening markets throughout the world to create new opportunities and higher living standards for our families, our farmers, our manufacturers, our workers, our consumers, our businesses.

From a free trade petition put out by the the Atlas Global Initiative for Free Trade, Peace, and Prosperity: But the fact that protectionism destroys wealth is not its worst consequence.  Protectionism destroys peace.  That is justification enough for all people of good will, all friends of civilization, to speak

European Trade Commissioner Ashton gave an excellent speech today at the Carnegie Endowment in Washington in defense of free trade.  The speech was titled, "The Transatlantic Challenge: Promoting Open Trade." It is posted at http://www.eurunion.org/eu/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&

So says Mexico's Ambassador to the US in a WSJ opinion column today. Trade wars are messy, and even though Mexico's retaliation will injure US industries (twice - because some of these industries would likely benefit from liberalization of the trucking sector) and Mexican consumers, in the