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05.02.2008 1:44 pm

Americans grow jaded about trade

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Is all the NAFTA-bashing campaign rhetoric driving public sentiment, or is public sentiment pushing the candidates to be more anti-trade? It’s impossible to tell, but the Pew Research Center finds that public support for free-trade agreements is dropping sharply. Last month,…

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01.31.2008 5:08 pm

The $5 billion food tax

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

As one grocery shopper told a Post-Dispatch reporter recently, “Things have gotten really expensive” at the supermarket. Food prices rose 4.9 percent last year, partly because of our thirst for corn-based ethanol and partly because of rising demand around the…

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11.21.2007 5:23 pm

The danger of mercantilism

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Russell Roberts, a former St. Louisan who now teaches economics at George Washington University, is worried about a resurgence of mercantilism. He writes in an article on Foreign Policy magazine’s Web site:

But when you hear U.S. presidential candidates start to…

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08.27.2007 11:11 am

Poole “troubled” by trade policy

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Bill Poole, president of the St. Louis Federal Reserve Bank, said in a speech over the weekend that he is troubled  by the direction of U.S. trade policy.

After mentioning the breakdown in World Trade Organization talks, the expiration of U.S.…

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