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America should expect devastating repercussions to its security and prosperity if it retreats from the world, according to Bret Stephens. It is worth remembering, he notes, that war and genocide resulted from America’s past retrenchments—and though we may ...


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Anonymous's blog I recently returned from a conference in which a coauthor and I presented some research on clubbing seals to death. No, not on the methodology of the ugly business; instead, we were looking at the economic and legal questions raised ...


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Anonymous's blog Last night, as part of the Chicago and the World Forum, Ian Bremmer proclaimed that the most important region of the world for US foreign policy was Asia. Further, he said, the most important US undertaking in Asia was the Trans-Paci ...


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Anonymous's blog At last month’s trade conference and then on this blog, former Missouri Gov. Matt Blunt, now President of the American Automotive Policy Council, explained why US auto producers would like to link rules against currency manipulation ...


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Anonymous's blog This was to be the morning when we received the bill for last month’s government shutdown shenanigans. All those who had irresponsibly failed to agree upon a budget by the Oct. 1 start of the fiscal year were to learn what damage the ...




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Anonymous's blog Bloomberg just reported on a dire assessment of the prospects for the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade agreement. An analysis by the Asian Development Bank said that the TPP “risks collapsing and producing a series of bilateral deals ...


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Anonymous's blog While the Trans-Pacific Partnership started small last decade, the trade agreement has grown rapidly. One recent growth spurt came when Canada and Mexico joined just over a year ago. Below, one of our expert panelists for next week&# ...


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12jn04e0op-l1o.jpg Anonymous's blog For more than a century, the Midwestern landscape has sparkled with small educational gems, private colleges devoted to the liberal arts. Most of them are located in small towns and cities which boomed in the Indus ...