by Virginia Chen, Dean DeChiaro & Emily Hoerner | Nov 5, 2010 | Business & Tech
WASHINGTON — Joe Jewell has a list, and he’s not afraid to use it. The deputy director of the Office of Marine Fisheries in Mississippi keeps a contact list of major media outlets and the press, and if he sees something wrong with the state’s monthly seafood...
by Virginia Chen, Dean DeChiaro & Emily Hoerner | Nov 4, 2010 | Business & Tech
WASHINGTON – It may be the regulatory bodies, rather than the financial reform bill itself, which will be most affected when newly powerful Republicans begin their work in the next Congress. In the game of financial regulation, some experts say, the groups controlling...
by Virginia Chen, Dean DeChiaro & Emily Hoerner | Nov 4, 2010 | Business & Tech
WASHINGTON– The shift to Republican control in the House of Representatives may bode well for international trade policy, where the United States is lagging behind its global counterparts. “We are falling behind. Our competitors such as the Europeans and...
by Virginia Chen, Dean DeChiaro & Emily Hoerner | Oct 25, 2010 | Business & Tech
WASHINGTON — Open economies provide more jobs and allow for a better recovery than closed ones in the long run, according to new research presented at the World Bank Monday. At a conference about Trade and Employment in Post-Crisis, held jointly by the World Bank...
by Virginia Chen, Dean DeChiaro & Emily Hoerner | Oct 22, 2010 | Business & Tech
WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) — Chinese and Indian companies aren’t overpaying for oil resources, an expert said Friday in countering claims that the emerging Asian nations’ foreign acquisitions endanger domestic energy security. Robert Weiner, a professor of international...
