A Brief Look Ahead U.S. Datebook Crude-oil imports are falling, balance-of-trade payments are improving and thousands of oil-field jobs are being created from Texas to Ohio, from West Virginia to Wyoming. ❋ Russell Gold (2012)
It imposes pigovian taxes on the balance-of-trade externalities (again, see "The Myth of Comparative Advantage" blog). ❋ Unknown (2010)
Moreover, if they contain no such constraints as limits on the balance-of-trade, they are severely dangerous. ❋ Unknown (2010)
This would rejuvenate farm and ranch communities, and shrink the U.S. balance-of-trade de fi cit. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Britain fought a war with China to manage the British balance-of-trade problems due to tea and silk they instigated the opium trade with China in order to pay off their foreign debts, and history is full of trade-driven problems. ❋ Unknown (2009)
NEW DELHI -- India's merchandise exports fell for the 10th straight month in July, but its balance-of-trade account improved as imports declined at a faster pace, the top official at the federal commerce ministry said Tuesday. ❋ Unknown (2009)
The villain was the notoriously sinister Sweden, which had a $1.5 billion balance-of-trade surplus with the United States in 1990, and whose team played to a hard-fought tie against the Americans in the elimination rounds. ❋ Unknown (2008)
With far less people, land and resources, Japan has an $80 billion yearly balance-of-trade surplus with the U.S. ❋ Unknown (2008)
I buy the $50,000 BMW, I contribute to massive waste of resources in building the vehicle and having it shipped from Germany, as well as driving it, not to mention to balance-of-trade issue again. ❋ Unknown (2008)
"Given the national debt, the balance-of-trade, and general loss of international esteem, I'd predict that by 2018 the US will be a second-world country, and maybe third-world (especially if we intervene on the wrong side in the (probable) Mexican revolution)." ❋ Unknown (2006)
Concurrent with our heaping on new federal debt at weekly Treasury auctions to finance our appetite for deficit spending, we are amassing balance-of-trade deficits at astronomical rates every month. ❋ Unknown (2007)
Why hasn't it viewed regulation of industry with a more flexible set of deadlines and cost-to-benefit analyses, and why hasn't it been more consistent in handling balance-of-trade questions, particularly in providing incentives for export? ❋ Unknown (1981)
Toward the end of the same cen - tury, writers began to advocate liberalizing interna - tional trade — sometimes twisting the balance-of-trade argument to serve this cause. ❋ FRANK H. KNIGHT (1968)
What has that meant to the American economy, the balance-of-trade deficit and the number of high-paying jobs that have been lost while they have gone elsewhere? ❋ Unknown (2010)
Let's see: towering deficits and a ballooning national debt; a balance-of-trade deficit that has persisted for a generation; a political process in gridlock over an issue - health care reform - that was settled in most advanced nations long ago; a public education system of middling quality relative to its international competitors. ❋ Unknown (2010)
In return, the Browns picked up free-agent tight end Robert Royal, and that's what you call a balance-of-trade deficit. ❋ Unknown (2009)
One benefit would have been a significant reduction of billions of dollars paid to Saudi Arabia and other OPEC members and a corresponding salutary effect on the U.S. dollar as balance-of-trade deficits would have been significantly lower. ❋ Unknown (2009)
When I buy the large flat screen TV, I am contributing to the production of gases, used in the flat screen, that are hundreds of times more potent greenhouse factors than carbon dioxide, and of course, from a balance-of-trade perspective, I’m sending dollars overseas to wherever the product is made (none are made in America). ❋ Unknown (2008)
