Articles by James M. Roberts

Russian Reset Roulette: Putin Throws Obama’s Foreign Aid Under the Bus

James M. Roberts | September 19, 2012

The State Department announced yesterday that Russian President Vladimir Putin has informed the United States he will not permit any further activities by the U.S…. Read More

New State Dept. “Fact Sheets” Push More Government, More Spending on Foreign Aid

James M. Roberts | September 06, 2012

Recently, The Heritage Foundation reported that the State Department is making major changes to its venerable series of “Background Notes”—transforming them from useful reference materials… Read More

Economy

Conflict Minerals: Another of Dodd–Frank’s Hidden Costs

James M. Roberts | August 23, 2012

On Wednesday, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) adopted a little-known section (and there are many) of the Dodd–Frank financial regulation bill that will end… Read More

Obama Transforms State Department “Background Notes” Into Campaign Material

James M. Roberts | August 16, 2012

Production by U.S. embassies of the State Department’s long-running series of annual “Background Notes” covering every country in the world had long been considered a… Read More

Argentina: Kirchner’s Policies Undermining Economic Growth

James M. Roberts | August 01, 2012

This Friday, the government of Argentina will announce with great fanfare the last payments on “Boden” bonds issued during the so-called corralito. That was the… Read More

Economy

Regulatory Overreach: Obama Administration’s Case Against Gibson Guitar Drags On

James M. Roberts | May 17, 2012

Numerous Heritage research papers and postings on The Foundry in the past year have reported on the plight of Gibson Guitar, which has been accused… Read More

Economy

U.S. Free Trade Agreement with Colombia Enters into Force Today — Finally!

James M. Roberts | May 15, 2012

Following through on President Obama’s announcement last month in Cartagena that the U.S.–Colombia Trade Promotion Agreement will take effect on May 15, 2012, U.S. Secretary… Read More

Council of the Americas Honors Argentine Government in Wake of Repsol/YPF Seizure

James M. Roberts | May 07, 2012

Argentina’s vice president, Amado Boudou, is confirmed to speak tomorrow at the annual Council of the Americas (COA) meeting at the Inter-American Development Bank in… Read More

Economy

Economic Freedom Is Surging in Chile

James M. Roberts | April 05, 2012

With a score of 78.3 in the 2012 Index of Economic Freedom published by The Heritage Foundation and The Wall Street Journal, Chile is now… Read More

OECD’s CSR Guidelines: Corporate State Department Responsibility?

James M. Roberts | February 03, 2012

This week the U.S. State Department announced the launch of the Stakeholder Advisory Board for the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) Guidelines for… Read More

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