No, that's not a quote from a U.S. Senator, but from a member of the People's Bank of China's monetary policy committee.  Here's more from a Bloomberg article: China's yuan rose beyond 7.4 to the dollar for the

I don't have a link for this because it came in an email (from AEI): America ’s farmers are highly productive, as Thursday’s Thanksgiving meal demonstrates. The Census Bureau reports that U.S. farmers this year will raise 272 million turkeys and produce 690 million pounds of

Most of the talk about carbon border taxes involves imposing taxes/charges in a manner that might discriminate against China and other developing countries.  But could China impose a border tax of its own?  They might not be there quite yet, but they seem to be thinking about these kinds

As noted in an earlier post, I don't know if this issue is building up momentum, but I seem to be coming across it quite a bit.  This is from an op-ed in the Boston Globe: The second core problem is hidden foreign tariffs called value-added taxes, or

Fernando Teson (with co-author Jonathan Klick) has an interesting take on trade and global justice. See here. This is the abstract: "Economists generally agree that free trade leads to economic growth. This proposition is supported both by theoretical models and empirical data. Further, while the empirical evidence is more

The Economist has two articles this week on the America's Climate Security Act (ACSA), a bill in the U.S. Senate.  They are generally in favor of its goals (reduction of greenhouses gases through a cap-and-trade scheme), but have a concern about one aspect of it.  In one