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...Democrat contenders' debate last week in Albuquerque, N.M., Vermont Governor Howard Dean said "we cannot continue to ship our jobs to countries where they get paid 50? an hour." But so far, no Democrat has yet made a full-blown attack on the trade deficit with China or suggested protectionist policies to reverse it. If that position continues to hold, give the last President some credit. Bill Clinton was one of the few politicians (in either party) who truly believed the intellectually unanswerable case that free trade, by encouraging economies to specialize in what they do best, eventually makes everyone...
...more connected to global entertainment. From only two staid state-run television channels in the early 1990s, cable-TV subscribers can now get 80 or more, replete with MTV and episodes of Friends. These mutually reinforcing trends prompt Indians to crave the big-name foreign brands that India's protectionist politicians kept out of reach for so long...
...Belgian brewers began seeing their local markets shrink in the late 1980s, they responded by beefing up their exports, hammering the "premium" theme and buying up other breweries. German brewers, by contrast, were protected by the beer purity laws - which lost their teeth when the European Court declared them protectionist in 1987, but still act as a seal of approval - and ensconced in family and village tradition. They responded by lowering prices to stimulate demand, cutting back production and staying resolutely local. Thus, while a country like the Netherlands exports more than half its production, Germany exports just over...
...crowd at this stage of the campaign--at a lake house near Munsonville, in southwestern New Hampshire. He spent most of his time talking about the need for a balanced budget. He defended his opposition to gun control and his support for the death penalty. He swung toward the protectionist left on trade, but most of his other positions could easily have been embraced by a "New" Democrat. The crowd seemed not to notice his shopworn moderation, though. Dean had been bold on the war--and so freshness was assumed on every other issue. "This guy has everything that Bill...
...crowd at this stage of the campaign-at a lake house near Munsonville, in southwestern New Hampshire. He spent most of his time talking about the need for a balanced budget. He defended his opposition to gun control and his support for the death penalty. He swung toward the protectionist left on trade, but most of his other positions could easily have been embraced by a "New" Democrat. The crowd seemed not to notice his shopworn moderation, though. Dean had been bold on the war-and so freshness was assumed on every other issue. "This guy has everything that Bill...