General links
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World Trade Organization  |
| U.S. Dept. of Treasury: Foreign Portfolio Investment Benchmark Surveys |
| Cato Institute: Causes and Consequences of the Trade Deficit |
St Louis Fed: The U.S. Trade Deficit and the 'New Economy'  |
| Council on Foreign Relations: The U.S. Trade Deficit: A Dangerous Obsession |
| Using Disaggregated Data to Dissect the U.S. Trade Deficit |
| Grandfather Economic Report: Trade & International Debt |
| Warren Buffet: Trade Deficit is Selling the Nation Out From Under Us. |
| U.S. Trade Deficit: Causes, Magnitude, and Consequences |
| IMF on Globalization |
| Emory University Globalization Web Site |
| World Bank on Globalization |
| Globalization Guide |
| Global Policy Forum on Globalization |
| Athabasca University Globalization Site |
| Globalization: Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy |
| World Commission on Social Dimension of Globalization (ILO) |
| Economic Policy Institute: Trade and Globalization |
| Trilateral Commission: Globalization |
| Mt Holyoke: Links on Globalization |
| Foreign Policy in Focus: World Trade Organization |
| WTO / GATT |
| WTO Watch |
| University of Chicago: WTO Law |
| The IFLA Position on the WTO |
| IFLA Position on the World Trade Organization |
| The WTO History Project |
| The SDR: Reserve Currencies and International Monetary System |
| Euro Implications for U.S. Foreign Policy |
| IMF: International Reserves and Foreign Currency Liquidity |
| The Empire of the Yen |
| World Gold Council |
| World Commodities and World Currency |
| U.S. Treasury Department: Legal Tender Status of U.S. Currency |
| EconWPA Paper: Will The Dollar Be Replaced? |
| J. Bradford Delong: Anatomy of the Global Economy (monthly commentary) |
| Joseph Stiglitz: Unconventional Economic Wisdom (series of articles) |
| Lester C. Thurow: The Dollar's Day of Reckoning |
| FX Street: The Forex Market |
| Inflation-Free Pricing Rules for a Commodity-Reserve Currency |
| Currency Competition: Some Options Considered |
| Friedrich von Hayek: proponent of a 'commodity reserve currency' |
| Abstractions, Things, Wealth, and Deindustrialization |
| After Deindustrialization and Financial Collapse |
| Japan as a Technological Superpower |
| America's Dissident Voices: Free Trade and the Deindustrialization of America |
| RAND: High-Technology Manufacturing and American Competitiveness |
| Technology, Jobs, and Inequality: What Is The Connection? |
| Gold Digest: It's The Fiat Dollar, Stupid! |
| After Capitalism: Why Manufacturing Matters |
| The Cambridge-MIT Institute; Manufacturing Matters (Free Video Conference) |
| Princeton: Paying the Bill, Manufacturing and America's Trade Deficit |
| National Association of Manufacturers |
| IMF: Offshore Financial Centers |
| Palmer & Dodge: The Patriot Act: Compliance Issues for Mutual Funds |
| BEA: Foreign Direct Investment in the United States |
| Foreign Direct Investment in U.S. Critical Infrastructure |
| International Portfolio Investment Flows |
| U.S. Equity Investments in Foreign Markets: Portfolio Rebalancing or Returns Chasing? |
| Taxation of Foreign Person's U.S. Income |
| Council of Foreign Relations: Don't Panic: How Secure Is Globalization's Future? |
| Global Policy Forum: Cheapening the Dollar |
Specific Links: Rest of the World
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| Survey of Current Business |
| BEA: Foreign Direct Investment in the U.S. |
| BEA: Balance of Payments: International Transactions |
| IMF: Coordinated Portfolio Investment Survey |
| BEA: International Economic Accounts |
| Bank for International Settlements: International Financial Statistics |
| U.S. Department of the Treasury: Treasury International Capital System |
| U.S. Department of Treasury: Exchange Stabilization Fund |
| Web sites of World Stock, Options, and Futures Markets |
| CNN Money: Indices of World Stock Markets |
| Balance of Payment Statistics: 1965-1997 |
| Heritage Foundation: Escaping the Vicious Cycle of Foreign Debt |
| GPF: Could Overseas Financing Hurt the U.S.? |
| CATO Institute: How We Can Cut The Trade Deficit. |
| Understanding the U.S.-China Balance of Trade |
| World Bank: International Capital Flows |
| San Francisco Fed: The Composition of International Capital Flows |
| Aging and International Capital Flows |
| Globalization, Capital Flows, and International Regulation |
| NY Fed: The Impact of Exchange Rate Movements on U.S. Foreign Debt. |
| CSIS: Assessing Risks of Cyber-Terrorism, Cyber-War, & Similar Threats. |
| GPF: Reimposing the Dollar Hegemony |
| Ludwig von Mises Institute: Perils of the Dollar Standard |
| Foreign Affairs: Hegemony or Empire? (Niall Ferguson) |
| FBI: Offshore Financial Centers |
| Committee on Foreign Investment in the U.S. |
| Indonesia May Dump Dollar -- Rest of Asia Too? |
| From Petrodollars to Petroeuros -- Are the Dollar's Days as an International Reserve Currency Drawing to an End? |
| The Dollar's Day of Reckoning --- Lester C. Thurow |
Books
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| 'Global Capital Flows: Should They Be Regulated?', Hardcover, Stephany Griffith-Jones
Forward by Nobel Laureate, James Tobin |
| 'Capital Flows and Financial Crises', Paperback, Miles Kahler
A study of financial crises in Pacific-Asia, Latin American, and Eastern Europe during the 1990s. |
| International Financial Statistics (monthly)
Standard source of data on international finance and capital flows from the International Monetary Fund |
| 'Whose Trade Organization? A Comprehensive Guide to the World Trade Organization', Paperback, Lori Wallach, Patrick Woodall, Ralph Nader
A Handbook for Activists. |
| 'Unholy Trinity: The IMF, World Bank, and WTO', Paperback, Richard Peet
Professor Peet provides intellectual heft to the placards of anti-globalization protestors. |
| 'The Political Economy of the World Trading System: From GATT to WTO', Paperback, Bernard Hoekman, Michael Kostecki
A full study of WTO and GATT. |
| '50 Years Is Enough: The Case Against the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund', Paperback, Kevin Danaher
What people have been shouting about in Seattle and beyond. |
| 'The Vandals' Crown: How Rebel Currency Traders Overthrew the World's Central Banks', Hardcover, Gregory J. Millman
How currency options and other derivatives threaten the international monetary system. |
| 'An Introduction to Foreign Exchange & Money Markets', Hardcover, UK London Reuters Ltd
A beginner's tutorial on forex and money markets. |
| 'The Globalisation of Poverty: Impacts of IMF and World Bank Reforms', Paperback, Michael Chossudovsky
An economist's realistic view of mismanagement by the World Bank and the IMF. |
| 'MITI and the Japanese Miracle: The Growth of Industrial Policy 1925-1975', Paperback, Chalmers A. Johnson
This books shows that 'industrial policy' can work |
| 'The Austrian Theory of the Trade Cycle and Other Essays', Paperback, Ludwig von Mises, Gottfried Haberler, Friedrich A. Hayek, Richard M. Eberling. |
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