COOL’s Collateral Damage
Among the many tragedies of war is collateral damage: deaths and casualties of non-combatants who happen to be in the wrong place at the wrong time as well as t...
America
An Open Letter To California Voters From An Iowa Farmer: Prop 37 Impacts Me Too
Dear Californian, I can’t vote on Proposition 37 this Election Day, but I’m watching it closely, all the way from my farm in Iowa. This ballot initiative ...
Border Unemployment
As an avid reader, I’ve shopped at a store in Des Moines for years. It’s hard to believe that I’ve probably walked through its doors for ...
Big Sky Hopes
A place called Big Sky can find room for anything but small ambitions. Yet the Asia-Pacific trade ministers who gathered at this resort community in Montana ...
Best of TATT 2010
On trade, we watched U.S.President Obama evolve from trade skeptic to trade enthusiast, at least rhetorically. In January, Terry Wanzek cheered Obama&rsquo...
We Need a Grand-Slam Trade Agenda
In the world of Washington, they’re talking about a different kind of trade—the exchange of goods and services across borders. Unfortunately, al...
World’s potato experts meet in Fredericton
CBC News - Canadian Broadcasting Corp.
August 10, 2009www.cbc.ca Virus Y focus of international conference Fredericton is in the eye of the potato world ...
A Legislative Drought
“We’re looking at a scenario where there’s no more agriculture in California,” he said earlier this year. He was talking about the th...
China profits from open markets but curbs free trade
The Times of London
Irwin Stelzer, American Account
July 18, 2009
http://business.timesonline.co.uk Trade skirmishes are one thing, full-blown trade wars...
A Declaration for Trade Interdependence
As members of Congress prepare to celebrate the Fourth of July, they ought to perform an act of patriotism and embrace free trade--just as the Founding Fathers ...