Congressional Inaction On Ex-Im Bank Blunts Export Push
Image via Wikipedia President Obama wants to streamline federal support of exports by combining several trade agencies. That's probably a good idea, but right now many U.S. exporters would settle for just getting the existing trade arrangements reauthorized at an adequate level of activity. A case in point is the Export-Import Bank, which [...]
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Obama wants export agency, closing of Commerce Department
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama will ask Congress on Friday for authority to close the Commerce Department and create a new export agency, an overhaul that could save $3 billion and help inoculate him against Republican election-year charges that he is a big-government liberal. White House budget official Jeffrey Zients told reporters the reorganization would fold together the ...
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Moscow to use Shevchuk in Transnistria to politically dominate Moldova
Tiraspol’s New Leader Shevchuk: A Man We Can Do Business With? Yevgeny Shevchuk’s victory in Transnistria’s “presidential” election is an opportune development for Russia, at the opportune moment. Moscow was slow to comprehend this, but will almost certainly act accordingly from this point onward. The Kremlin dumped Transnistria’s “president,” Igor Smirnov; supported the almost equally ...
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