trade policy
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Over the past three years, Wilde Lake High School senior Daniel Ingham says he has learned something each year at the annual Student Learning Conference that has changed his life. - How policymakers negotiate and interact with their constituents about trade negotiations could be as important as what they negotiate. In a world of instant communications and social media, governments are struggling to find a way to develop public trust while effectively conducting trade policy negotiations.
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- Unfair trade with Asian competitors is killing the U.S. economy, but neither Barack Obama nor Mitt Romney is proposing a way to address it.
- The growing export market in Baltimore, and in the nation, points the way for sustained job creation.
- Thanks in large part to booming production of natural gas from shale deposits in neighboring states, a Maryland LNG terminal could be bustling again in several years — exporting the heating and industrial fuel to other countries, instead of importing it.
- Peter Morici says U.S. priorities for boosting employment should be fair trade policies, aggressive energy development
- Peter Morici says U.S. priorities for boosting employment should be fair trade policies, aggressive energy development
- The Orioles' presence at a workout by Yoenis Cespedes showcases their expanded international efforts. Four Orioles representatives, including manager Buck Showalter and new executive director of international recruiting Fred Ferreira, will watch the 26-year-old Cuban outfielder work out Saturday.
- While China gobbles up oil and Russia cements its petroleum-for-influence scheme, the U.S. and Europe keep rejecting oil from the friendliest of neighbors, Canada.
- Economist Peter Morici says we are already in a trade war with China; the only question is whether we will defend ourselves
- Free trade agreements with South Korea, Columbia and Panama would create jobs; we can't let politics get in the way of their passage
- The North American Free Trade Agreement has been an utter failure for Maryland and the U.S.
- The reality of the global economy is that nations still try to maximize exports and minimize imports
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- American unemployment is caused by a faulty eduction system that fails to deliver skilled workers.
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- Free trade has destroyed our industrial base and shifted jobs overseas.
- 26-year-old Syd Lea from Taneytown, Carroll County, has traversed the world several times on the way to becoming the premier cyclist among American Special Olympians. Lea was a top winner for Team USA in the recent Special Olympics World Summer Games in Athens, Greece, earning three of the team's 10 gold medals in the international competition.
- James Edgar Byron, former mayor of Williamsport who was a scion of an old Maryland political family, died July 2 of heart failure at his farm in Shepherdstown, W.Va. He was 83.
- James Edgar Byron, former mayor of Williamsport who was a scion of an old Maryland political family, died July 2 of heart failure at his farm in Shepherdstown, W.Va. He was 83.
- Baseball's international signing period, which begins July 2, is quickly becoming one of the most important dates on the calendar for many big league teams.
- Contrary to the assertions of a congressional fact finding mission, the record of human rights abuses in Colombia remain terrible and will only be worsened by a free trade agreement with the United States.
