GLOBALIZATION – World Trade
In his excellent recent works on the themes [of the] nature of globalization and expanding world trade – “The World is Flat,” and the earlier “The Lexus and the Olive Tree” – The New York Times Foreign Affairs columnist and book author Thomas Friedman brilliantly describes and elegantly frames the boundaries and frontiers of the new era that corporations and capital market players have entered, beginning in 1989.
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News & Updates
By: USA TODAY
David J. Lynch
WASHINGTON -- Despite the dollar's sharp decline, the global economy is likely to remain seriously unbalanced between debt-heavy Americans and the USA's cash-rich trading partners, according to the International Monetary Fund's...
By: Los Angeles Times
Megan K. Stack, Times Staff Writer
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez blew through Russia on Tuesday, cutting business deals, griping about the United States and pumping up the friendship between two oil-rich nations.
He pressed Prime Minister Vladimir Putin to pay...
By: Newsday (New York)
BY STEVE KETTMANN. Steve Kettmann is an American author living in Berlin. His most recent book is "Letter to a New President," co-written with U.S. Sen. Robert Byrd (D-W.Va.)
BERLIN
Sen. Barack Obama's strong start on his tour of foreign hot spots and capitals this week puts him in a position to step back for a minute from short-term political calculation and approach his speech tomorrow in Berlin...
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Research & Insights
By: USA TODAY
Calum MacLeod
BEIJING -- People in China, host of next month's Olympic Games, are highly satisfied with their roaring economy and the direction of their nation, according to a poll released Tuesday. Americans appear far more downbeat about...
By: Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas - Globalization and Monetary Policy Institute
This paper tests whether the proposition that globalization has led to greater sensitivity of domestic inflation to the global output gap (the "global output gap hypothesis") holds for the euro area. The empirical analysis uses...
By: Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas
Economic Letter
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Commentary & Opinion
By: The International Herald Tribune
Thorsten Benner, Stephan Mergenthaler and Philipp Rotmann - The New York Times Media Group
A French diplomat, Alain Le Roy, has been appointed by the United Nations secretary general, Ban Ki Moon, as the world's chief peacekeeper. With UN peace operations facing the most serious crisis since Rwanda and Srebrenica, the...
By: Investor's Business Daily
Energy: Big Oil is easy to kick around -- just ask any Democrat in Congress. But China's threats to Exxon Mobil are in another league. Its bid to use Exxon Mobil as a wedge against its rival Vietnam is a case in point.
What...
By: Los Angeles Times
Richard Boudreaux, Times Staff Writer
To: Sens. Barack Obama and John McCain
From: The Holy Land
Re: Well, it's complicated. . .
So you're competing to become the umpteenth American president burdened by the conflict over this hallowed patch of ground.
Like nearly...
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