Tag Archives: trade barriers

The Smoot-Krugman carbon import tariff

I wrote last Friday about the China/India hole in the American climate strategy: America appears to lack a high-probability strategy for how to get China, India, and Russia to agree to self-impose a significant positive carbon price. The Administration and its Congressional allies are trying to impose a significant carbon price in the U.S. through [...]

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What was accomplished at the G-20 Summit?

Here is the “Leaders Declaration” for the Summit on Financial Markets and the World Economy (aka the G-20 Summit) hosted by President Bush last Friday and Saturday in Washington, DC. This is the second of a two-part note.  Here’s the first part. A fair amount of the press coverage followed a ready-made storyline:  “Lame duck [...]

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The wrong way to address climate change

The Senate is now debating a climate change bill, typically referred to as the “Lieberman-Warner” bill, referring to Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-CT) and Sen. John Warner (R-VA).  Technically, we think they’ll end up considering a slightly different version of that bill, offered by the Chair of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, Sen. Barbara [...]

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President Bush’s trip to Europe

The President left this morning for a nine-day trip to Europe. Q:         Where is he going? A:         (1) Prague, Czech Republic.  (2) Heiligendamm, Germany, for the G-8 meetings.  (3) Jurata and Gdansk, Poland.  (4) Rome and the Vatican.  (5) Tirana, Albania.  (6)  Sofia, Bulgaria. The G-8 meetings are Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday.  There will actually [...]

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