Though they vehemently deny it. Among the ideas pushed by the US: Indian farmers would have to accept being driven out of business by US produce being dumped on the Indian market.
Blaming the US for its rigid stand on the contentious issue of farm subsidies and the collapse of WTO talks in Geneva, India today [...]
Continue Reading July 25th, 2006 Björn Hallberg
Need we worry or have the poorer nations risen to the call? And if so, will they, emboldened by their non-cooperation, save us from ourselves?
Zmag (Vandana Shiva) - The WTO Ministerial at Hong Kong has already failed. For the corporate world it has failed because smaller, poorer developing countries are starting to have a say [...]
Continue Reading December 13th, 2005 Björn Hallberg
I’m speaking of the Nobel Prize for Economics of course which was awarded to Robert Aumann and Thomas Schelling in a lofty ceremony yesterday. The economics prize which was instituted in 1968 by the Bank of Sweden (The Central Bank of Sweden, also the oldest central bank in the world no less). The topic, “having [...]
Continue Reading December 11th, 2005 Björn Hallberg
Brand America is taking a beating. Now there is finally some good news. And again, ironically, although the immediate evidence suggests that the Bush regime has been a total failure, in the long run their arrogance and bluntness may have been a welcome wake-up call for the rest of the world. Nemesis awaits.
Asia Times - [...]
Continue Reading November 7th, 2005 Björn Hallberg
Care to find something that the US is not flouting? It would be a challenge.
Hopefully this will aid in some small way in convincing the few allies and / or neutral countries that the US is problem that needs to be dealt with. Money is usually an area which people take very seriously. That is [...]
Continue Reading November 1st, 2005 Björn Hallberg
Why is Japan the only region where Airbus can’t quite make it? Care to guess?
MAINICHI - Japan’s top three manufacturers have so far rejected offers from Airbus of contract work on the planned A350 jets, citing their order commitments to rival Boeing Co., Airbus Chief Executive Gustav Humbert said Wednesday.
Airbus, based in Toulouse, France, controls [...]
Continue Reading October 27th, 2005 Björn Hallberg
Watching America - However solid and impressive the growth of the American market, such success has nonetheless allowed the development of what could be termed a “social anxiety.” According to professor Michel Aglietta, such anxiety results from the system “transferring the whole of the insecurity to those members of society least capable of assuming such [...]
Continue Reading October 26th, 2005 Björn Hallberg
At least the reformed entity will still contain safe guards. But the prospect of free flowing capital, especially at non fixed exchange rates abroad may spell trouble.
BBC - The final hurdle had been the upper house of parliament. It was this house which voted down an earlier reform bill in August, prompting Mr Koizumi to [...]
Continue Reading October 14th, 2005 Björn Hallberg
The World Economic Forum has released its Global Competitiveness Report for 2005-2006. And not surprisingly, the small, somewhat “planned” economies of the Nordic region are excelling. Macroeconomic management if you will. Nevertheless, top ten looks remarkably … “socialistic”.
1. Finland
2. USA
3. Sweden
4. Denmark
5. Taiwan
6. Singapore
7. Iceland
8. Switzerland
9. Norway
10. Australia
Take Sweden for example. One should note that [...]
Continue Reading September 30th, 2005 Björn Hallberg
Gee, there is a catch. Of course.
U.S. President George W. Bush told a U.N. summit on Wednesday that the United States was prepared to drop all trade tariffs, subsidies and other barriers if other nations did the same. Eliminating trade barriers “could lift hundreds of millions of people out of poverty over the next 15 [...]
Continue Reading September 15th, 2005 Björn Hallberg
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