Showing posts with label free trade. Show all posts
Showing posts with label free trade. Show all posts
Friday, April 08, 2016

And This is Called Free Trade? On China South Korea’s FTA

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From Reuters’s Answers ON : China and South Korea wrapped up FTA negotiations this month; negotiations that had started back in May of 2...
Monday, March 07, 2016

Quote of the Day: The Difference Between Minimum Wages and Free Markets on Unemployment

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Professor Don Boudreaux at the Cafe Hayek provides an awesome explanation : (bold mine) (1) The unemployment caused by a minimum wage is...
Tuesday, April 16, 2013

Video: Why do we Trade or Exchange Things?

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Voluntary t rading or exchanging are ubiquitous activities for people, unfortunately many don't understand its essence and that's...
Tuesday, March 19, 2013

How Free Trade Promoted Peace in Mindanao

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It is refreshing to read about anecdotes of how the largely unappreciated free markets works unnoticeably in the P hi lippine setting ...
Friday, December 07, 2012

Why the Shale Gas Revolution will go on…

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...because the benefits enormously outweigh the costs. Prolific author Matt Ridley writing at the UK Telegraph enumerates them 1. ...
Wednesday, November 28, 2012

Quote of the Day: Free Trade is for Common Man, Protectionism is a Rip Off

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The cause of free trade has always been about the common man. It is about the right of average people to trade with whomever they want. Pr...
Friday, November 16, 2012

Free Trade Between China and Russia Promotes Peace

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“If goods don’t cross borders, then armies will” has been one my favorite quotes from the great French classical liberal or proto Austro-li...
Thursday, September 27, 2012

Quote of the Day: The Mercantilist’s Pareto Strawman

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The market economy has never been without its critics and enemies.  Those who feel threatened by the market; those who, however unwisely, ...
Wednesday, September 26, 2012

Bastiat on The Case for Unilateral Free Trade

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The great Frédéric Bastiat makes the case for unilateral free trade. (source Mises Institute ) We have just seen that whatever increase...
Sunday, September 09, 2012

Video: The Power of the Undervalued $10 Trillion Informal Economy

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Author Robert Neuwirth of Stealth of Nations: The Global Rise of the Informal Economy makes a great talk at the TED anent the vastly underr...
Tuesday, August 28, 2012

ASEAN Experts: Yuan to Replace U.S. dollar, Euro

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From Xinhua , China's currency could be eventually used as an alternative to the U.S. dollar and Euro by southeast Asian countries,...
Monday, July 30, 2012

Video: I, Smartphone (Made Everywhere)

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This is video is the modern day representation of Leonardo Read's must read classic I, Pencil . Two points here: One, nobody knows how t...
Friday, July 20, 2012

Quote of the Day: Economics versus Social Darwinism

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Economics doesn't point to people and say, "Look what they can't do." Economics instead asks, "Well, what can th...
Wednesday, June 27, 2012

China-Chile Plans to Double Trade in 3 years and Use the Yuan as Medium

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China continues to promote her currency, the yuan, as an international currency reserve through a package of trade and investment bilateral...
Friday, June 15, 2012

Quote of the Day: Global Competition is the 21st Century Reality

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instead of pursuing a 20th century trade policy model that seeks to secure market-access advantages for certain producers, policy should ...
Wednesday, May 30, 2012

How Italian Renaissance Bankers Bought off the Church

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From at Mary Tao at the New York Fed Research Library (hat tip Bob Wenzel) What do the Italian Renaissance and the Great Depression ha...
Monday, April 30, 2012

The Philippine Financial Markets Shrugs off the Scarborough Shoal Standoff

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The financial markets and politicians backed by mainstream media apparently lives in two distinct worlds. If one goes through the daily ba...