Global Economy

An Asia Times piece by Zhou Jiangong earlier this week describes a complica

I am in Bhopal, visiting India after almost three years.

The discrepancy between the relative position of the US economy in the world on the one hand and the relative position of the United States as to its military presence and the role of the US dollar on the other hand is moving towards a cracking point.

Capitalists and entrepreneurs will have to be convinced that a new social system will keep their investments safe from government appropriation — no small task.

The Korea Times reports in this article on the increasing diffic

Unfortunately, the problem with antitrust regulation is not what we see, but what we don't see.

This fascinating and inspiring story from the BCC shows

We free marketeers get exhausted saying it so many times, but here goes: Foreign imports do not destroy jobs on net. Government interventions against international trade do not promote employment. Everyone can get hired in a free labor market, so there is no issue of "providing jobs."

Brad Setser at RGE Monitor provide this commentary

Includes an interview with Walter Block, from the television program “The Journal”