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...Whitman writes that "the restraint of competition stifles innovation and also contributes to lower levels of productivity and standards of living." Yet he later advocates the subsidizing of American companies in foreign markets "until all foreign companies go bankrupt" after which "American companies could then assume control of the market...and the United States would be free to extract economic rents indefinitely." This is a clear contradiction; the benefits of competition are presumably the same, whether in the US computer industry or the Japanese kimono market...
...been "a mixed bag," says a State Department official. The U.S. has been quietly appreciative of Beijing's cutoff of military assistance to the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia in 1990, of its cooperation in the apparently successful effort to freeze North Korea's nuclear-weapons program and of its restraint in using its U.N. Security Council veto against U.S. initiatives. But Washington remains utterly frustrated by insensitivity--if not outright resistance--to other American concerns where China is giving little ground or no ground...
This lost efficiency directly translates into lower productivity and hence lower living standards. Similarly, by denying U.S. companies access to markets, trade barriers restrain competition between U.S. companies and their foreign rivals. This restraint of competition stifles innovation and also contributes to lower levels of productivity and standards of living. Clearly, foreign trade barriers, such as those employed by Japan, directly contribute to a lower U.S. standard of living and can no longer be tolerated...
...Gingrichism seems spent, as his party's presidential candidates battle it out in the primaries, offering various versions of supply-sideism, populist anticapitalism and everything else other than budget cutting and fiscal restraint. And Bill Clinton? For the moment, he looks like the odds-on favorite for re-election. What a difference a few days make...
...year-old Wilson, who over the past two decades has become America's most important and daring jazz vocalist," says TIME's Christopher John Farley. "Her voice has the heavy, rolling darkness of a storm cloud, but Wilson isn't given to flashy lightning vocals. She finds emotion in restraint -- her voice murmurs low like distant thunder, or strikes a brief, bright note, like sunlight after rain. New Moon Daughter stands as Wilson?s most emotionally rewarding album, a mellow but challenging crescendo of themes from her past work...