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Foxconn in Wisconsin: arguments for an American industrial policy
The pole dance is concluded. Jeff Bezos has chosen New York City and the Virginia suburbs of Washington DC for Amazon’s new headquarters. State and local governments will fork over more than $2 billion for the favor. Earnest policy folk are a bit shocked. The libertarian magazine "Reason" thinks Amazon would have picked . . .
Trade war won't cause recession says Paul Krugman
Yahoo Finance's Dion Rabouin wonders Why Trump's trade war hasn't tanked the market or the economy yet:
Business sentiment has been shaken by U.S. President Donald Trump’s escalating trade war with China, the European Union and other countries, financial analysts say. But some are wondering why the impact hasn’t shown up in . . .
Globalization is still flat - and that's not necessarily bad
Martin Sandbu is optimistic about the outlook for globalization in 2017. While his colleague at the Financial Times Shawn Donnan recently wrote about globalization in countries' policies (on which I commented yesterday), Mr. Sandbu looks at globalization in outcomes, in the sense of growing economic integration between countries.
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