C. Fred Bergsten

...very pro-free trade." U.S. inaction on trade is giving China and Asia an opening to forge trade agreements amongst themselves, said C. Fred Bergsten, president of the Peterson Institute for International Economics. "There is a lot of...

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...Ben Rhodes, a White House advisor for strategic communications, in a meeting with reporters on Monday. Free-traders including C. Fred Bergsten, director of the Peterson Institute for International Economics, would like to see Obama bring...

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...rules, but it deepens adherence to rules that are there and at the same time promotes free trade as the norm," he added. C. Fred Bergsten, director of the Peterson Institute for International Economics, recently wrote the dynamism of APEC...

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...currency markets to prop up the dollar. "I'm sure that risk looms very much on the minds of top Treasury and Fed officials," said C. Fred Bergsten, director of the Peterson Institute for International Economics and a onetime Treasury...

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...will be hurt if China moves forward on plans to tax them in return. "It was folly and will probably cost jobs here," C. Fred Bergsten, director of the Peterson Institute for International Economics, says of Obama's decision. The tire...

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...of avoiding an outbreak of protectionism during this economic crisis and doing serious damage to the world economy," said C. Fred Bergsten, director of the Peterson Institute for International Economics. Gerard insists his union is...

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...have suggested a new economic grouping, dropping the last digit from G-20. In testimony before the U.S. House earlier this month, C. Fred Bergsten, of the Peterson Institute for International Economics, reiterated his call for the United...

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...to boost American employment while honoring its general pledges to promote wider world trade. "Obama has no trade policy," C. Fred Bergsten, director of the Peterson Institute for International Economics, said. "The administration has yet...

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...class="subhead">Global flavor</span></strong></p><p>The Kansas City-based International Relations Council will honor economist C. Fred Bergsten at its 26th annual banquet Oct. 5 at the Hyatt Regency Crown Center hotel. Bergsten, director of...

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...Alan Greenspan, Robert Rubin and the head of the European Central Bank. In many ways, the institute is the creation of C. Fred Bergsten, who has become the model of a Washington policy entrepreneur. Bergsten launched his Washington...

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