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Archive for the ‘Trade Deficit’ Category
Sunday, March 14th, 2010
Healing our sick + educating our children = a healthier, happier, and smarter America
If health was improved and all our children had a equal chance at education, our country wouldn’t need to outsource jobs to foreign countries. We wouldn’t need to donate money to the poor because our poor would be [...]
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Saturday, January 16th, 2010
After ruling much of the known world for centuries, Rome fell due to a number of factors that, historians believe, would not have been fatal in isolation, but that proved terminal in combination. Military overspending and overreach, an untenable economic system, and currency debasement all played a role. As has been well documented, the Roman [...]
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Thursday, December 10th, 2009
The Obama administration extended the $700 billion financial-rescue program until October, arguing that the U.S. must hold on to the money in case of new financial shocks.
In a letter today to congressional leaders, Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner said the department doesn’t expect to deploy more than $550 billion of the funds. The Treasury may expand [...]
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Tuesday, October 13th, 2009
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=CNG.e272eaa74dccc30f21c6ff7638b0f37b.461&show_article=1#
“The United Nations called on Tuesday for a new global reserve currency to end dollar supremacy which has allowed the United States the “privilege” of building a huge trade deficit.”
“China had called in March for a new dominant world reserve currency instead of the dollar, in a system within the framework of the Washington-based IMF.”
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=aSp9VoPeHquI
“UN [...]
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Sunday, October 4th, 2009
Walmart sucks the big one…why? Walmart is sending our middle class manufacturing jobs to China. They dictate the prices they’ll pay for the merchandise they sell, driving down wholesale prices to the point where manufacturers must employ cheap overseas labor to compete. They pay crappy wages, provide meager benefits if any yet still have plenty [...]
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Saturday, October 3rd, 2009
While many characterize the changes that would stop the subsidies as protectionism, it’s actually about ending “reverse protectionism.” Considering the growing U.S. trade deficit, it’s clear that the U.S. does not have a problem with “protectionism” and that, to the contrary, “reverse protectionism” is winning. Ending “reverse protectionism” is not protectionist.
What’s somewhat amazing is that [...]
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Friday, October 2nd, 2009
Secret Russian Anti-Gravity Technology? – Vid
http://www.clipser.com/watch_video/1068743
When will the US produce real technology again, instead of relying upon China for our industrial complex, which Bill Clinton gave away?
WOLF’s NOTE: The Hastening American Decline: Transfer of the American Industrial Base
http://www.gooff.com/news/read.asp?ID=1428
The transfer of the American industrial base to remote regions of the planet continues, especially to China. It [...]
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Wednesday, September 30th, 2009
Down at the Chinese outlet store in Albany known as Wal-Mart, Chinese tires have so successfully undercut U.S.-made tires that the Cooper Tire factory in that south Georgia town had to shut down.
Twenty-one hundred Georgians lost their jobs.
The tale of Cooper Tire and what it portends is told in last week’s Washington Post by Peter [...]
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Sunday, September 27th, 2009
A number of countries, including China and Russia, have suggested replacing the dollar as the world’s reserve currency
In a radical report, the UN Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) has said the system of currencies and capital rules which binds the world economy is not working properly, and was largely responsible for the financial and [...]
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Friday, September 25th, 2009
The embattled US dollar is expected to come under scrutiny at a summit of developing and industrialized nations following China-led calls to review its role as a reserve currency.
The dollar issue is bound to surface at the two-day meeting in Pittsburgh as US President Barack Obama and other leaders of the Group of 20 economies [...]
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