Taking Free Trade for Granted
Here in the United States we take free trade for granted. We have access to markets throughout the world, but most of us think nothing of it. We have grown accustomed to the goods and services that make our life easier. Yet, in the Ukraine, access to free markets has been stomped on by Ukraine President Viktor Yanukovych, who has decided that forming a union with Russia is preferred over a relationship with the European Union. The result is that Ukrainians have taken to... Read More
It’s Not Just World Trade — It’s Human Development
If you think of world trade as the exchange of products for money, its real power is the exchange of ideas to create innovative breakthroughs. In fact, a recent Wall Street Journal story characterized international trade “as the most momentous innovation of the human species; it led to the invention of invention.” The editors suggest that the new buzz word is “collective intelligence.” They define this as the notion that what determines the inventiveness and rate of... Read More
Louisiana Congressman John Fleming Characterizes BP Oil Spill As A Disaster of Biblical Proportions
The unfortunate families in the Gulf got no comfort listening to the President’s energy address this week. Even as President Obama was preparing his speech, Asbury noted that the government released a new estimate of the amount of oil flowing from the well. It was estimated that as much as 60,000 barrels could be spewing into the Gulf of Mexico each day, a sharp increase over the estimate last week of 25,000 to 30,000 barrels a day. Meanwhile, Asbury was incredulous... Read More
Conscientious Equity
On March 15, 2010, Peter Miller, President of PMA Literary & Film Management, Inc., announced the sale of the world English rights to Conscientious Equity: An American Entrepreneur’s Solutions to the World’s Greatest Problems by Neal Asbury to Palgrave Macmillan. Miller negotiated the sale with Laurie Harting, Executive Editor. The book will be published in hardcover in October 2010. In Conscientious Equity, Asbury argues that moving away from intransigent political ideologies... Read More
