A day before the United Nations held a climate change summit, New York City was blanketed with 100,000 fake copies of the New York Post tabloid, filled with content related to climate change.
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev on Tuesday accused the United States of "blocking" Russia's accession to the World Trade Organization.
The cynical view is tempting: World leaders have made yet another feel-good, empty pledge they will forget as soon as they return to their domestic concerns.
To me, the United States gets more and more conflicted. People argue whether we're a center-right or center-left country. But suppose there's no center anymore, so we're just center-less?
Headlines proclaiming that G-20 activists and police are following each others' activities on Twitter, Facebook and other social networking sites may give one the impression that a new age of surveillance and political activism has dawned.
China has arrested the former head of the country's credit insurer on charges of corruption after a months-long investigation, state media reported.
The role of the United States as the world's economic leader will be tested this weekend when 20 significant world leaders meet in Washington to address the global financial crisis.
Organizations that have a role in the global financial system:
Following is a list of organizations that have a role in the global financial system and what that role is:
Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson says the administration intends to keep pursuing a policy of "robust engagement" with China that will include filing unfair trade cases as needed and pressuring the Chinese to move more quickly to revalue their currency
A day before the United Nations held a climate change summit, New York City was blanketed with 100,000 fake copies of the New York Post tabloid, filled with content related to climate change.
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev on Tuesday accused the United States of "blocking" Russia's accession to the World Trade Organization.
The cynical view is tempting: World leaders have made yet another feel-good, empty pledge they will forget as soon as they return to their domestic concerns.
To me, the United States gets more and more conflicted. People argue whether we're a center-right or center-left country. But suppose there's no center anymore, so we're just center-less?
Headlines proclaiming that G-20 activists and police are following each others' activities on Twitter, Facebook and other social networking sites may give one the impression that a new age of surveillance and political activism has dawned.
China has arrested the former head of the country's credit insurer on charges of corruption after a months-long investigation, state media reported.
The role of the United States as the world's economic leader will be tested this weekend when 20 significant world leaders meet in Washington to address the global financial crisis.
Organizations that have a role in the global financial system:
Following is a list of organizations that have a role in the global financial system and what that role is:
Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson says the administration intends to keep pursuing a policy of "robust engagement" with China that will include filing unfair trade cases as needed and pressuring the Chinese to move more quickly to revalue their currency
The United States has filed a complaint with the World Trade Organization over European tariffs on three categories of high-tech goods
The Bush administration is accusing China, Russia and seven other nations of failing to protect American producers of movies, computer software and other copyrighted material from widespread piracy
It is commonly said that we know more about the Moon than the deep blue sea.
Q: I've talked to a number of economists who provide advice to you, and say that you are very interested in business cycles. In late 2000 you were on "Meet the Press," and you actually predicted correctly, ahead of just about everybody, that a downturn was around the corner. That was Bill Clinton's economy. Now it's your economy. What's your candid assessment of it?
The United States' payment of illegal subsidies to Boeing Co. has cost rival plane maker Airbus $27 billion in lost revenues over the past three years, the European Union said Wednesday.
The World Trade Organization opened a formal investigation Tuesday into allegations China is providing a safe haven for product piracy and counterfeiting, the most far-reaching of four trade disputes between Washington and Beijing, trade officials said.
China asked the United States for talks in the World Trade Organization over U.S. penalties imposed in a dispute over glossy paper Friday, the government said.
The future of World Trade Organization's Doha pact is under doubt, EU Trade Commissioner Peter Mandelson said Thursday, as talks between the United States, European Union, India and Brazil broke down.
China's global trade surplus fell sharply in March to its lowest level in more than a year, the government there reported Tuesday just as the United States filed a case against it before the World Trade Organization.
China on Tuesday criticized U.S. plans to file two complaints with the World Trade Organization accusing China of unfair trade practices.
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The World Trade Organization Tuesday cleared the way for Vietnam to become its 150th member - a move that boosts its trading access with other countries but doesn't yet allow U.S. businesses to freely set up shop in the Southeast Asian nation.
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Terrorism is changing international trade patterns and costing business money.
On Sept. 27, hundreds of America's top cotton growers gathered in the convention center in Visalia, Calif., in the heart of the San Joaquin Valley. They'd come for the annual meeting of Calcot, one...
Hurricane Katrina could cost the nation's farm sector up to $2 billion, affecting Midwest farmers who are unable to ship their goods by barge down the Mississippi River, according to a published report.
WHICH TOWN IS THE SOCK CAPITAL OF THE WORLD? IT'S a ridiculous question (unless you happen to have an unhealthy affection for hosiery), but it illustrates a problem of historic dimensions for the U...
It has been 30 years since the Vietnam War ended and now this country in Southeast Asia is one of the world's fastest growing economies.
Following are essential facts and figures on the People's Republic of China.
One day after the United States agreed not to block Iran's application to join the World Trade Organization, Iran's leader has said his country is ready to temporarily suspend its uranium enrichment program.
The European Union and Russia have signed an agreement confirming EU backing for Russia's bid to join the World Trade Organization.
Friction between the United States and China is set to increase with the approach of a May 17 negotiating deadline imposed by the World Trade Organization. At issue: Washington complains that Beiji...
Talk about betting on a long-shot. Members of Congress, sports organizations such as the NCAA and some federal prosecutors believe they can hold back the growth of Internet gambling.
President George Bush is a free-trader. So is every last one of his economic advisors. "Certainly the rhetoric has been the strongest of any President since Roosevelt in favor of free trade," says ...
You might think that after two tax cuts in less than three years, totaling a whopping $1.6 trillion, Congress would be content that it had left its mark on the economy. But you'd be wrong. There ar...
Is the globalization agenda in trouble? Progress has been halting, and the recent World Trade Organization talks in Cancun, Mexico, collapsed in chaos. Hoping for a rebound, many of the same delega...
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DELI PICKLE Where's deflation when you really need it? Katz's Delicatessen in New York City recently informed patrons that it had to raise the price of its legendary pastrami sandwich by 45¢, to $1...
If you see a World Trade Organization spokesman behaving oddly--saying strange things about trade or wearing an inflatable golden phallus--don't be confused. It's probably just Andy Bichlbaum, the ...
The promise: The summer heat in Henan province in central China is so oppressive that it feels like a great blazing hand pressing down on your head all day until, finally and mercifully, the sun di...
What grade will the economy earn this fall? The "V" some forecasters still confidently predict? Or, as most CEOs I talk to fear, a "U" for ugly? (Personally, I worry we'll end up scrapping this let...
The boy from Brooklyn had come a long way. There he was, standing in the May sunshine with ex-Presidents Ford, Carter, and Bush, two former Secretaries of State (Henry Kissinger and James Baker), a...
JANUARY
Okay, so free trade took a battering in Seattle--for heaven's sake, even the teddy bear statue outside F.A.O. Schwarz got trashed. Still, the world is unlikely to stop buying and selling just becau...
November
Less than a week after the world's highest-tech air force bombed the elusive Chinese embassy in Belgrade, street life in China's main cities had returned to normal. But it was easier to clean up th...
WHILE MOST of the country's attention is focused on what the next Congress will do, the old Congress has a momentous task to perform before disbanding -- and an enormous opportunity to make the wor...
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