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Begone ye foul capitalist roaders; the second Cultural Revolution has begun. I have written a lot--far too much for my tastes--about recent Communist Party efforts to wean the PRC off foreign product…
Those were the days--and some hope to bring them back. Five years later, we are about to hear the decision on Russia's liabilities from expropriating Yukos. Readers will remember Mikhail Khodorko…
So Gazprom avoids Ukraine, but not the long arm of the EU. In their ongoing tussle with Western Europeans, the Russians have already deployed lots of guns and money , so I guess it was only a matter…
The hapless and pathetic US carrier Delta Airlines seems less interested nowadays in running a viable business than in taking on quixotic wild goose chases. A few months ago it made the headlines by …
Yours truly has long noted that the PRC has not been too forthcoming about allowing foreign financial services providers to do business in China. As it turns out, not only is it difficult for foreign…
Now for one of my occasional Robb Report impersonations--albeit with an IPE twist. (We've got style, baby.) In 1998, Lamborghini became a wholly-owned subsidiary of Audi AG, which in turn is a …
Here's something that I found in the LSE employee newsletter, of all places. Given the often legalistic culture of Western economies, it is no surprise that they prefer the settlement of economic…
[NOTE: For those who don't get the title, play this AC/DC song .] There are two broad debates going on regarding the current dominance of Samsung in the consumer electronics space. First we hav…
File this under: pre-emptive strike. It appears that the indefatigable Hugo Chavez is back on the warpath against all things American. A few days ago he publicly suspected the United States of unleas…
You can say that eventual trade war is written in the stars above between the world's two largest nations, though here's another example of a skirmish testing the waters. There I was enjoying…
Given several new developments, today's a mighty fine time to update our coverage [ 1 , 2 ] of worldwide rare earth metal availability provided its importance to modern industrial production. Beg…
Today, the WTO finally released its panel report on the EU's complaint against the United States regarding American subsidies for Boeing (case # DS353 ). This, of course, is the countersuit launc…
This case has been anticipated for some time but is very interesting nonetheless. It is yet another entry in a series of steel-related actions by the US against China on the import front. Previous a…
I thought it proper to take stock of where we are in terms of trade frictions between the US and China after US legislators finally decided to stick it to the PRC. This news has dominated the airwav…
These aircraft cases have set new benchmarks for duration and cost to prosecute. However, we finally get the report from the WTO dispute settlement mechanism (DSM) on the Boeing versus Airbus side o…
