Economics lession For Liberials

I heard this on Levin again today, this is a great essay on how our economy works, even a liberal should be able to understand its simplicity: Read the whole piece if you haven't read it, this is only a teaser.


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I, Pencil | Foundation for Economic Education

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if it was on levin, it's not worth bothering with. *shrug*

but if it's simplistic, it explains why it would appeal to rightwingnuts.

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So you would be that closed minded as to not even bother to read it? I must say I'm disappointed you my friend.

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Man is not free unless government is limited.Ronald Reagan

Concentrated power is not rendered harmless by the good intentions of those who create it.
Milton Friedman

I thought all the pencils were made in China now?

why would i waste my time reading something that's BS?

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"Trust none of what you hear And less of what you see" Springsteen

When the Founding Fathers protected our right to free speech, I think that meant we were supposed to use it.

O, when she is angry she is keen and shrewd; / She was a vixen when she went to school, / And though she be but little, she is fierce. — Shakespeare

Don't judge me until you have walked a mile in my heels. -- J

Poor thing. To die and never see Brooklyn. -- Anne Sexton

and therein lies the real economic lesson.

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"Trust none of what you hear And less of what you see" Springsteen

When the Founding Fathers protected our right to free speech, I think that meant we were supposed to use it.

O, when she is angry she is keen and shrewd; / She was a vixen when she went to school, / And though she be but little, she is fierce. — Shakespeare

Don't judge me until you have walked a mile in my heels. -- J

Poor thing. To die and never see Brooklyn. -- Anne Sexton

Anyone with a brain knows that the whining, screaming maniac with a girl's soprano voice Levin is a DICK!.

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Hmmm, learn some global economics right wingers.

Friday, August 12, 2005
US Pencil Imports Continue Growth
The latest update to US import statistics for wood cased pencils support the growth trend experienced for some years now. Over the past 5 years through 2004 pencil imports into the US have increased at an average annual rate of 6.0% on a dollar value basis and of 7.8% on a unit volume basis. This is reflects an average annual reduction of 1.8% in import prices over this period. In total 2004 unit volume imports were 17.6 million gross (this 2.5 billion pieces for the year or almost 9 pencils per capita).

Our own estimates indicate that imported pencils now represent approximately two-thirds of the total US annual consumption on a unit volume basis. We estimate that the share of US manufactured pencils has dropped from around 50% of the market just three or four years ago.

Timberlines: US Pencil Imports Continue Growth

Lesson 2 on the economics of pencils for right wingers.

Wednesday, August 24, 2005
Pencil Anti-Dumping Duties: Primer
The following is the first of a series of Timberlines articles to be posted in the coming weeks discussing the impact various world trade issues and practices have upon the Pencil Industry.

Import and export duties, value added taxes, export credits or export VAT rebates, fixed currency exchange rates are all examples of factors that impact trade flows around the world. Such meddling with what “free market thinkers” would call free and unrestricted trade is a common practice from nation to nation. Certainly the World Trade Organization and other regional trading block agreements such as NAFTA, various EU agreements, APEC, ASEAN and MERCOSUR work to liberalize such trade barriers worldwide. However, there is clearly a level of relative national and regional competitive advantage to be gained when countries set their policies regarding these market influencing instruments. Often the duty policies of one or more countries for given products are set as retaliation for or to correct perceived unfair trade practices of another particular country.

The pencil industry is no exception to this situation and a number of these market “interventions” or “correction factors” (depending upon where you come out on the free trade scale) exist within our industry. Today’s topic of anti-dumping duties is just one such example. Currently, several countries worldwide have implemented incremental Anti-Dumping duties specifically placed upon imported Chinese pencils as a result of lobbying from local pencil manufacturer groups. These anti-dumping duties are imposed over and above any normal import duty pencils may be subject to. Among such countries with Anti-Dumping duties are the United States, Mexico and Turkey. I expect there may be some others of which I am not currently aware. For these three countries, anti-dumping duties range from just over 100% to over 400% of the invoice value of the pencils.

Here in the US the current country wide anti-dumping deposit rate for pencils exported from China to the USA is 114.9%. The importer of record is required to “deposit” funds into an escrow type account upon importation of the pencils. This rate is applicable to all imported Chinese pencils, unless a specific Chinese exporter/producer has gone through an administrative review process with the U.S. Department of Commerce (DOC) to have their company audited for a reduced rate. However, this is an expensive and very complicated audit process and as such not many Chinese companies pursue reduced dumping margin rates. Currently, four Chinese entities or combined manufacturer/export company groups (including our own subsidiary facility) have received reduced dumping deposit rates ranging from 0% (ours) to around 23%. In effect these companies have demonstrated that they are not dumping pencils or should not be at the China-wide rate for the most recently reviewed period. Under DOC rules the country wide rate is set by the highest rate determined for any given Chinese company that ever requested a review by DOC. As such the original rate of around 53% was increased to the current 114.9% level a few years back.

Timberlines: Pencil Anti-Dumping Duties: Primer

How do you know if it's BS if you don't even read it? This essay was originally written when Levin was about a year old..I just heard it read on Levin, he has nothing to do with the piece ,I shouldn't even have mentioned him

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Man is not free unless government is limited.Ronald Reagan

Concentrated power is not rendered harmless by the good intentions of those who create it.
Milton Friedman

if i gave you a link from DU or from the communist workers party, (not that i would), would you bother with it?

the answer's no.

and your "source" is as bogus to me as those others would be.

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"Trust none of what you hear And less of what you see" Springsteen

When the Founding Fathers protected our right to free speech, I think that meant we were supposed to use it.

O, when she is angry she is keen and shrewd; / She was a vixen when she went to school, / And though she be but little, she is fierce. — Shakespeare

Don't judge me until you have walked a mile in my heels. -- J

Poor thing. To die and never see Brooklyn. -- Anne Sexton

Yeah and it was valid when he was 1 yr old, but not valid now.

Do libs really think taxing our way out of an economic problem is the way to go? Take the history of Social Security for example. The federal government stole the money at first and later LBJ made it "legal" that all FICA taxes belonged to Congress. There was never a locked box. Politicians stole the lock and the box not to mention the contents. The point is that Americans are at the point in history when they realize that congress can't be trusted. Any new tax is like giving a community activist a stolen ATM card. The federal government needs to cut spending.

This is a lesson in economics for liberals? Isn't that like a lesson in typing for seals?

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What are you talking about? that link is not for Levin, What source are you Referring to? what exactly are you talking about ? I think you've been on these boards too long.

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Man is not free unless government is limited.Ronald Reagan

Concentrated power is not rendered harmless by the good intentions of those who create it.
Milton Friedman