Progressive Economy
- Weekly Trade Facts
- May 9, 2012: The term "cyberspace" is 28 years old.
- May 2, 2012: U.S. recovery in brief: manufacturing & exporting up, real estate still down.
- April 25, 2012: Imports from Venezuela are heavier than imports from China.
- April 18, 2012: All U.S. earthworms north of Mason-Dixon Line are alien invaders.
- April 11, 2012: U.S. export growth in 2011: $265 billion.
- April 4, 2012: One major-league ballplayer in every nine is from the Dominican Republic.
- March 28, 2012: Total column ozone stabilizes as chlorofluorocarbon use ends, 1987-2012.
- March 21, 2012: 550 million people escaped extreme poverty in the last decade.
- March 14, 2012: 40 percent of all international IPR royalties go to the United States.
- March 7, 2012: Remittances from overseas workers more than double world foreign aid.
- February 29, 2012: 3 percent of the world's people are immigrants.
- February 22, 2012: Russia's WTO accession negotiations took 18 years.
- February 15, 2012: U.S. tariffs are 170 times higher on Cambodian goods than Saudi goods.
- February 8, 2012: English as the most "globalized" language.
- February 1, 2012: World unemployment in 2011: 197 million people.
- January 25, 2012: Container capacity tripled in the last decade.
- January 18, 2012: A third of all U.S. export growth since the crisis has gone to Canada & Mexico.
- January 11, 2012: Florida is likely to double exports in five years.
- January 4, 2012: U.S. industrial-robot population up 20 percent since the crisis.
- December 21, 2011: World refugee and displaced person count: 25 million.
- December 14, 2011: WTO agreements cover 99 percent of trade.
- December 7, 2011: AGOA clothing exports are 15 percent of Lesotho GDP.
- November 30, 2011: U.S. share of global FDI down from 20% in 1990s to 14.5% in 2001-2010.
- November 23, 2011: 14 percent of the world's people are undernourished.
- November 16, 2011: 42 percent of PC software worldwide is pirated.
- November 9, 2011: One in seven countries is an EU member.
- November 2, 2011: Food-borne disease incidence in the U.S. down 23% since 2000.
- October 26, 2011: U.S. still world's largest importer & exporter.
- October 19, 2011: Life expectancy in least-developed countries has grown by 7 years since 2000.
- October 12, 2011: America needs exports to grow.
- October 5, 2011: U.S. use of anti-dumping & countervailing duty suits in long-term decline.
- September 28, 2011: U.S. exports to Peru double since 2007 FTA, but crisis pushes imports down.
- September 21, 2011: Rich countries near Kyoto emissions targets; Arctic sea-ice continues to shrink.
- September 14, 2011: U.S. government raising & spending less money than other rich countries.
- September 7, 2011: Fewer tires from China, more from Korea, Taiwan & Southeast Asia.
- August 31, 2011: Labor Day: unemployment lowest in rural America, as farm & resource exports soar..
- August 24, 2011: Six of the world's ten tallest buildings have opened in the last five years.
- August 17, 2011: 160 million Americans can get 4G wireless subscriptions.
- August 10, 2011: U.S. Joins New Zealand & Belgium at AA+
- August 3, 2011: Maternal Mortality Rates Down 30 Percent Worldwide; Rising in U.S.
- July 27, 2011: U.S. Cost to Export a Container, Compared to Foreign Tariffs
- July 20, 2011: A. Hamilton, & Modern Experience, on Sovereign Debt Default
- July 13, 2011: The Ex-Im Bank, and Your Flight to Addis Ababa
- July 6, 2011: U.S. Losing Export Share
- June 29, 2011: Costa Rica (or Denmark), as World's Happiest Country
- June 22, 2011: 53 Million Children in Hazardous Work; Child Labor Rates Falling
- June 15, 2011: The Rebirth of Pro-Shopper Populism
- June 8, 2011: Immigrants as Inventors & Entrepreneurs
- June 1, 2011: Tunisia, Olive Oil, & GSP
- May 25, 2011: Airbus, Boeing & the WTO
- May 18, 2011: Trade Adjustment Assistance
- May 11, 2011: Colombia, Roses, Tariffs & FTAs
- May 4, 2011: Broadband, Exabytes, & 4G Wireless
- April 27, 2011: R&D, and Scientists Working Worldwide 2000-2010
- April 20, 2011: Tsunami Aftermath, with Relief Options
- April 13, 2011: Youth v. Age in Trade Polling
- April 6, 2011: Shoppers, Tariffs, & 1040s
- March 30, 2011: U.S. Exports & the Recovery
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