dedefensa<\/em>. C’est sur Barack Obama devenu pr\u00e9sident populiste, dont vous parliez hier. Stelzer \u00e9crit sa chronique dans la perspective du message sur l’\u00e9tat de l’Union, qu’Obama donne au Congr\u00e8s cette semaine.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n\tStelzer n’est pas un po\u00e8te, c’est un homme qui ne s’int\u00e9resse pas aux sp\u00e9culations sur la psychologie du pr\u00e9sident. Il prend l’\u00e9volution r\u00e9cente d’Obama du point de vue des cons\u00e9quences \u00e9conomiques. Il parle des banques, du d\u00e9ficit, etc., mais je trouve que ce n’est pas le plus int\u00e9ressant. Il y a surtout les cons\u00e9quences commerciales qu’il pr\u00e9voit, notamment les relations avec la Chine.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
\t\u00abEnough is enough. That is the message the most reliably Democratic state in America sent to Barack Obama and his Democratic Congress last week when its voters chose Republican Scott Brown to represent them in the Senate. Brown entered the race for the Massachusetts seat vacated by the death of Ted Kennedy some 30 points behind in the polls, and won with an astonishing margin of five points.<\/em> [] <\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bbThe message from Massachusetts will have a profound effect on economic policy. When the president delivers his State of the Union message next week we will see the new populist Obama not the elitist who derided senator-elect Brown for driving to campaign meetings in his truck<\/em> []<\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bbThe drive to bring down unemployment will not stop with the proposals in the president’s State of the Union message. The Massachusetts election increases the party’s reliance on the trade unions that have the cash and the manpower to deliver Democrat core voters in the 2010 congressional and 2012 presidential elections. And those unions are not exactly disciples of Adam Smith.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bbThe president has already imposed tariffs on tyres and some steel products imported largely from China. The next target of the unions is Chinese glass. They point out that the World Trade Center’s twin towers were sheathed in good old made-in-the-USA glass, but the building that is springing up to replace it will be covered with glass imported from China. Whether that is because Chinese glassmakers receive government subsidies, as the unions allege, or because the Chinese are more efficient glassmakers, matters less to politicians, and to many Americans, than the symbolism of America’s new Freedom Tower being covered in Chinese glass.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bbAdd to the mix the fact that many of the world’s leading economies are depending on export-led growth to get out of recession, and that the Chinese show no signs of allowing their currency to appreciate. These countries continue to see Americans as the world’s consumers of last resort, while at the same time calling on the US to reduce its trade deficit.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bbWhat our trading partners see as the export of goods and services, our politicians will see as importing unemployment. True, consumers here benefit from cheaper imports, even from those subsidised by job-hungry China. Consumers are the winners, workers the losers. And unlike consumers, unions are organised to put pressure on Congress.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bbPolicymakers live in dread of the unintended consequences of their actions. One unintended consequence of Brown’s election might just be greater reliance on protectionist measures by politicians who believe they have to cut unemployment now, regardless of the long-term consequences.<\/em>\u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n\n
Vieux Rebelle<\/em><\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Barack Obama populiste (et protectionniste) Vous avez parfois cit\u00e9 Irwin Stelzer dans vos articles. C’est un pilier du Hudson Institute et, par cons\u00e9quent, un membre \u00e9minent et tr\u00e8s repr\u00e9sentatif de l’establishment washingtonien. Je crois que sa chronique hebdomadaire du dernier Sunday Times du 24 janvier (lien : http:\/\/business.timesonline.co.uk\/tol\/business\/columnists\/article6999992.ece) int\u00e9ressera les lecteurs de dedefensa. C’est sur… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[3977,6208,4155,1097,9195,5686,9194],"class_list":["post-71483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ouverture-libre","tag-chine","tag-obama","tag-populiste","tag-protectionnisme","tag-rebelle","tag-stelzer","tag-vieux"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71483","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71483"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71483\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}