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Barack Obama on Free Trade
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Obama, free trade, race and vanity
... Germany is a free country. Therefore, Barack Obama was free to speak in Berlin. However, it represents a change I do not like. ... Unfortunately, in Berlin on July 24, 2008 Barack Obama had nothing groundbreaking to say, not even a sound bite.
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America in the World: Free trade
Last week we reported Barack Obama's decision to impose 35% tariffs on imported Chinese tyres. The Obama administration's protectionist instincts are the subject of a damning ...
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Barack Obama Books
The best books about President Barack Obama. ... His triangulated positions can seem conflicted: he supports free trade, while deploring its effects on American workers (he ...
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Obama and Free Trade: Q&A With Jagdish Bhagwati



Free trade is never more necessary - or vulnerable - than in times of economic distress. The current global downturn is no exception. Protectionist barriers have shot up all over the world, including the United States. Last year, Congress killed a pilot program allowing Mexican trucks to transport goods across America and included Buy America provisions in the stimulus bill banning foreign steel and iron from infrastructure projects funded by the legislation. More disturbingly, President Barack Obama, after chiding Congress for flirting with protectionism, initiated his own ill-advised affair by imposing a 35 percent tariff on cheap Chinese tires. If the world manages to avoid an all-out trade war of the kind that helped trigger the Great Depression after the US imposed the Smoot-Hawley tariffs in 1930, it will be in no small part due to the efforts of one man: Jagdish N. Bhagwati, an ebullient and irreverent 76-year-old professor of economics at Columbia University. Bhagwati has done more than perhaps any other person alive to advance the cause of unfettered global trade. A native of India, Bhagwati immigrated to the United States in the late 60s after a brief stint on the Indian Planning Commission, where he learned first-hand the insanity of an economic approach that tried to modernize a country by cutting it off from world trade. Since then, he has devoted his efforts, both in academia and in the popular press, to showing that there is no better way of improving the ...




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