Kirsten Wandschneider

Assistant Professor of Economics and IPE

INTERNATIONAL ECONOMICS IN THE NEWS

Below are interesting articles from major US and international news sources that relate in some way or another to the class.

Sarah found this interesting article on the effects that crude oil proces could have on global economic growth. Check it out here! (BBC 9/21/05).

Aja sent two articles, one on the competitiveness of the U.S. economy (CNN 9/28/05) and one on Europe's competitiveness (WSJ 9/29/05).

Arnaud sent this article on textile quotas bewteen the U.S. and China (BBC 9/29/05).

Sue-Jean sent this Op-Ed piece by Gary Hufbauer (NYT 10/25/05).

Jean sent this article on sanctions in Syria (NYT 10/31/05).

Here the latest on the Fed interest rate hike from Derek (CNN 11/1/05).

Derek also sent this article on the Americas Summit (CNN 11/3/05).

Aja found this article on ECB interest rates (WSJ 11/4/05).

Casey found this article on the trade relations between the US and Panama (NYT 11/7/05)

Here an interesting piece on the dollar from Will (CNN 11/8/05)

Feel free to e-mail me any articles and news storys that you think might be interesting to the class (kwandsch(at)middlebury.edu)!

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