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[Economistsview.typepad.com] Economist's View: Stiglitz and Rashid: Free Trade Hypocrisy: Well those wacky guys at the International Trade Administration summarized it in this recent report: .No Name on Globalization Lessons from the World Cup .
[Psdblog.worldbank.org] What is Fair Trade for? - PSD Blog - The World Bank Group ...: I don't think that providing a sustainable price for existing farmers to produce coffee will significantly increase the quantity of coffee in the market. It will probably remain somewhat constant, at least as influenced by the fair trade system, because the farmers paid fair trade prices won't have to slave away for 12 hrs per day producing even more coffee just so they can get by (as they do trading non fair traded coffee which may be the root of why there is so much coffee on the market).
[Discussion about 09/11/2001] [911TruthAction] Digest Number 1315: WASHINGTON � Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist's 2000 campaign committee violated federal campaign law by failing to disclose a $1.44 million loan to the campaign, the Federal Election Commission has determined.
[Cutting edge] Opinion about global financial system: The only reason you are reading a Nash equilibrium analysis of the interaction between precious metals and official currency now on the Web, not 30 years ago in the New York Times, is that the Times gets its economics from real economists, not random bloggers, and the profession of economics today is deeply tied to the institutions that manage the global economy. Real economists do not, as a rule, spend time thinking up clever new reasons why the global financial system will inevitably collapse.
[John Law] Why the global financial system is about to... : Because of Volcker's victory, and the defeat of millions of investors who bet on a dollar collapse, the financial world spent the next twenty years assuming that there was some kind of fundamental cap on the gold price, despite the lack of any logical chain of reasoning that would predict any such thing.
[The BEING HAD Times] Day of Unification, Opposition fades, Cold war... : "The publication of these ideas in a respectable American journal has had an explosive effect," former Russian prime minister Yegor Gaidar wrote in an article in London's Financial Times newspaper. "Even those Russian journalists and analysts who are not prone to hysteria or anti-Americanism took it as an outline of the official position of the U.S. Administration."
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