China for the first time became Germany’s most important trading partner in 2016, overtaking the United States, which fell back to third place behind France, data showed on Friday. German imports from and exports to China rose to 170 billion euros ($180 billion) last year, Federal Statistics O[...]
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AFTER TRUMP: China is now Germany’s Leading Trade Partner
August 27th, 2018 - 10:16 am § in Donald Trump, Foreign Affairs
TRADE DEAL: It is in the details!
The details of the Mexico:US Trade agreement: It looks to me as if some good could come out of the Trump admin. Reuters, reports that the agreement with Mexico requires 75% of an automobile’s value to be manufactured in North America, up from NAFTA’s current level of 62.5%. It wo[...]
February 3rd, 2014 - 11:43 pm § in Misc.
Ninth Circuit Clarifies The Rules For Academic Free Speech
This article is about biting the hand that feeds you, then the hand squeezing back. Human nature being what it is, criticizing your employer, or even offering unwelcome suggestions, usually isn’t the best strategy to stay employed. Workplace free speech rights, and the related topic of whistle[...]
January 21st, 2014 - 3:02 am § in Politics
Bloggers, libel, and free speech
“Sticks and stones may break my bones, But words will never harm me.” — Traditional rhyme Were it only so. The ugly reality is that badmouthing someone can destroy their reputation, business, career, family, and life. For example, we’ve all read news stories about cyberbullie[...]
Free Speech Leads to Dismissal of Tenured Faculty at Washington State College
NOTE TO FACULTY: DO NOT — USE YOUR UW EMAIL THE Ave has long suggested that UW faculty use UW email as little as possible. This story makes that point: A recent newsletter of the Society for Human Resources Management: raises disturbing issues of free speech on a Washington state coll[...]
October 10th, 2022 - 10:20 am § in Law and Courts
Pig pen fight
I’ll bet you want to spend your Monday reading about the “dormant Commerce Clause.” Your wish is my command. Let’s start with history. Before the Constitution, “economic Balkanization … plagued relations among the Colonies and later among the States under the Arti[...]
October 2nd, 2020 - 11:31 pm § in America, Economics, Environment, Hypocrisy, Politics, Racism, Religion
“Defeat the Right in Three Minutes” by Conceptual Guerilla
Introduction: This article is a classic I first read many years ago. It’s still on the internet, but getting harder to find, so I decided to archive it on this blog to help preserve it. I hope the author doesn’t mind (I’m pretty sure he won’t). This version came from a third-[...]
BREAKING FUTURE NEWS: Three monarchies celebrate 2222022.
THE GRAND ALLIANCE CELEBRATED BY GIFT OF WALL SIZE PAINTING TO THE BRITISH MUSEUM TA News, London, December 13, 2030. The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has presented a major art work to the British Museum for permanent exhibit. The piece, commissioned by the Saudi King and the work of Saudi artist Sam[...]
November 27th, 2018 - 11:26 am § in Donald Trump, Hypocrisy
Is Trump Destroying Detroit?
As GM drops the Volt, Trump’s damage to GM is part of a bigger and sadder picture. The two remaining major American car companies .. Ford and FM .. are either getting out of the small car and EV world or exporting those activities to Asia and Europe. Even John Deere and Trump’s beloved H[...]
Why I Oppose “Free College”
The Bernies are touting another slogan .. free college. Great slogan but an idea that they have not thought out. The US has about 30 million college-age kids. If we estimate the cost of college at $50,000, that comes out to $1,500,000,000,000. That is 1.5% TRILLION dollars! The Bernies prot[...]