Trouble with Trade

rffrydr · Posted: Mon Apr 02, 2007 6:02 am Post subject: Trouble with Trade

"Protectionism" is not the sole impulse. Trade, like everything else, has it's price.

From The Economist:

http://economist.com/daily/news/displaystory.cfm?story_id=8951642&top_story=1
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rffrydr · Posted: Thu Nov 03, 2011 5:45 am Post subject:

Argentina, in a new kind of "industrial policy," will trade in your Porsche for peanuts:

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-11-02/porsche-sells-malbec-to-keep-autos-coming-into-argentina-cars.html

This is probably a good thing for Argentina. Certainly it's more palatable than some of the "joint-ventures" structured in china. After default trade (im)balance necessarily takes on new importance. But, after the depression, so does the peeling back of Globalization everywhere.
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rffrydr · Posted: Mon Oct 24, 2011 8:28 am Post subject:

Yo...china, yous got no class:

http://video.cnbc.com/gallery/?video=3000052623
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rffrydr · Posted: Tue Jan 19, 2010 3:35 pm Post subject:

Not a single pane in the new World Trade Center--tariffs coming to a supplier near you:

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/19/business/19glass.html?scp=2&sq=glass&st=cse
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