Trade and Globalization

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Behind the Federal Reserve Board's interest-rate deliberations and months of sluggish stock-market performance lies a nagging question: Why did U.S. productivity, the nation's economic output per labor hour, suddenly accelerate in 1995 after decades of stagnation?

The recent problems of the steel industry in dealing with dramatic surges of imports from a number of countries put import relief back on the U.S. policy agenda. Whatever one's views on the merits of trade, it is beyond dispute that imports will occasionally bring about dramatic dislocations in the form of factory closings and layoffs. As U.S.

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Rather than cause for celebrating the transformation of a former authoritarian ally into a vibrant democracy, the inauguration of Chen Shui-bian as Taiwan's new president was, in general, greeted indifferently in the United States. During Taiwan's presidential campaign, China railed against Chen's candidacy and threatened to use military force against Taiwan if he continued to pursue a path toward Taiwanese independence.

A public affairs forum sponsored jointly by the New America Foundation and the Republican Main Street Partnership.

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Everett Carll Ladd, a political scientist, once remarked, "Social analysis and commentary has many shortcomings, but few of its chapters are as persistently wrong-headed as those on the generations and generational change. This literature abounds with hyperbole and unsubstantiated leaps from available data." Many of the media's grand pronouncements about America's post-Baby Boom generation -- alternatively called Generation X, Baby Busters, and twentysomethings -- would seem to illustrate this point.

Prime Minister Keizo Obuchi arrives in Washington today for the first official visit by a Japanese prime minister in 12 years. Other official visits have been planned but none of Japan's many prime ministers over the last decade has lasted in office long enough to make the trip.

Obuchi, memorialized in the U.S. press as "more boring than cold pizza," has demonstrated considerable talent for stabilizing, at least in the near term, Japan's tumultuous political and economic situation.