Author P.J. O’Rourke once called America’s obsession with safety the quest for the “wiffle-ball life”. I remember when I was a child, backyard contact football was played without pads or helmets, and NO ONE would have ever been caught dead with a bicycle helmet on. My school gym class included “war ball”, a particularly violent […]
The NYT article, “Chewy Chicken Feet May Quash a Trade War”, leads me to mull over the potential trade dispute over tires and chickens: “China is threatening to cut off imports of American chicken, but poultry experts have at least one reason to suspect it may be an empty threat: Many Chinese consumers would miss […]
So we now have a brewing trade row over Chinese tires and American chickens: “China announced dumping and subsidy probes of chicken and auto products from the U.S., two days after President Barack Obama imposed tariffs on tires from the Asian nation. Chinese industries complain that they’re being hurt by ‘unfair trade practices,’ the nation’s […]
So we now have a brewing trade row over Chinese tires and American chickens: “China announced dumping and subsidy probes of chicken and auto products from the U.S., two days after President Barack Obama imposed tariffs on tires from the Asian nation. Chinese industries complain that they’re being hurt by ‘unfair trade practices,’ the nation’s […]
From the Mail Online, “Revealed: the Ghost Fleet of the Recession”. This is the most stunning evidence yet that things will not be back to normal any time soon. 12% of the world’s cargo fleet sits idle?! One-in-eight ships tied at anchor out in the middle of the ocean!? And the shipyards continue to produce […]
“China’s growth figures fail to add up” says the headline. And the sky is blue, you say? “China’s gross domestic product figures are among the world’s most closely watched since they can move markets or boost hopes of an imminent recovery. But the latest set of first-half numbers provided by provincial-level authorities are far higher […]
Norman Borlaug – the man who enabled the growth of the globalized world more than any other – has died. “Borlaug was the Father of the Green Revolution, the dramatic improvement in agricultural productivity that swept the globe in the 1960s. For spearheading this achievement, he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1970.” Whether […]
“China’s growth figures fail to add up” says the headline. And the sky is blue, you say? “China’s gross domestic product figures are among the world’s most closely watched since they can move markets or boost hopes of an imminent recovery. But the latest set of first-half numbers provided by provincial-level authorities are far higher […]
Norman Borlaug – the man who enabled the growth of the globalized world more than any other – has died. “Borlaug was the Father of the Green Revolution, the dramatic improvement in agricultural productivity that swept the globe in the 1960s. For spearheading this achievement, he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1970.” Whether […]
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