Bush Trade Policy

Bruce Bartlett, a reliably conservative columnist whose commentary on economic matters appears regularly on the editorial page of the Indianapolis Star, recently delivered a scathing analysis of what passes for trade policy in the Bush Administration. After accusing the administration of ?incredibly poor judgment in trade policy ever since taking office,? Bartlett pointed out that the steel tariffs imposed by Bush have backfired badly, by costing jobs in industries that use steel. Bush?s agricultural subsidies, said Bartlett, ?doomed a multilateral trade agreement.?
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A Spin Too Far

As the Bush Administration proposes to further relax the rules restricting concentration of media ownership, it seems fair to look at the current performance of the conglomerates that increasingly decide what Americans should know.
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