Dealings between persons or groups
trade a (1) :the business of buying and selling or bartering commodities :commerce (2) :business, market novelties for the tourist trade did a good trade in small appliances b obsolete :dealings between persons or groups
We need to return to the obsolete definition of the word as being as important, if not more so, than the bartering of goods for a profit. The dealings between people need to be fostered so that ideas and feelings can be exchanged in an effort to gain not money but understanding.
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GUN CONTROL |
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HEALTHCARE |
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Sessions said: "We are taking a stand. This
culture of leaking must stop. ... So, today, I have this message for the
intelligence community: The Department of Justice is open for business. And I
have this warning for would-be leakers: Don't do it."
"Talks with Disney over
sale of key TV and movie assets could signal end of an era for the media moguls,"
per the Financial Times:
- "Rupert
Murdoch is not used to hoisting the
white flag of surrender. Yet his willingness to explore a break-up of 21st
Century Fox and discuss the sale of prime film and television assets to
Walt Disney suggests that, at the age of 86, the media mogul may have lost
his appetite for a fight."
- "The
talks were initiated by Disney and its chief
executive, Bob Iger."
- "[B]y
even entertaining the discussions,
Mr Murdoch and his sons, Lachlan and James, have effectively put Fox on
the block, a target for content-hungry companies such as Verizon, the
telecoms group, and the John Malone-backed Charter Communications."
- Why
it matters: "The Murdochs have started a process that
could lead to the dismantling of a company that took decades to
assemble."
- "The
media landscape is already in a period
of profound structural change. ... Still, the prospect of Mr Murdoch and
his sons contemplating a sale of Fox's prized movie studio, cable channels
and international investments — such as Sky — has stunned investors."
(Axios AM, November 8, 2017)
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POLITICS |
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TECHNOLOGY |
We weren't prepared: The government's lagging understanding
of social media technology leaves tech companies to monitor themselves — which
didn't provide much incentive for them to keep close tabs on how their
platforms were being used for electoral manipulation. [Axios AM, October 10, 2017]
Another NAFTA pressure point: A
coalition of more than 500 companies and groups representing film, television,
music, book publishing and other creative industries has collected more than 50,000 signatures in
support of adding strong copyright protections to a revised NAFTA agreement.
That puts them at odd with tech industry groups that want the Trump
administration to incorporate safe harbors and other copyright limitations and
exceptions from U.S. law into the text of the new NAFTA pact. [POLITICO's
Morning Trade, October 12, 2017]
In addition, an ad hoc coalition of business groups that
includes National Association of Manufacturers, the National Foreign Trade
Council, the Coalition of Services Industries, the American Farm
Bureau Federation and the National Pork Producers Council hit Capitol Hill on
Wednesday to enlist lawmakers in their campaign against the Trump
administration's new approach to trade policy.
"This is really a massive negative reaction to where the
administration is trying to take trade agreements and trade policy generally
from what I would describe as the overwhelming majority of manufacturers,
agricultural groups and services industries," one industry official
involved in the effort said. "We're
asking members of Congress to contact the White House and Commerce and Ag and
to voice their opposition to withdrawal from NAFTA; opposition to changes that
go in the direction of restricting trade, rather than improving the agreement
and improving trade; and to really suggest to the administration that they step
back and do a better job of consulting with a wide, wide, wide range of groups
that have these concerns," the official added, speaking on condition of
anonymity. [POLITICO's
Morning Trade, October 12, 2017]
U.S.,
JAPAN GET READY TO MEET AGAIN: Amid all the NAFTA news, don't forget that
Vice President Mike Pence and Japanese Deputy Prime Minister Taro Aso will meet
Oct. 16 for the second
round of
the U.S.-Japan economic dialogue launched by the Trump administration in the
wake of Trump's decision to pull out of the TPP. Japanese officials are likely to continue
showcasing the level of investment and jobs that Japanese companies have
created in the U.S. They'll have some evidence to back that up with the release
this week of the Japan Automobile Manufacturers Association's annual
contributions report. The study shows record high production and
employment since the first Japanese companies opened factories in the U.S.,
including a 3.2 percent and 2.6 percent respective increase in the number of
vehicles produced and direct jobs provided by Japanese automakers. That
translates to nearly 4 million automobiles and more than 90,000 jobs.
CHINESE TRADE SURPLUS OVER U.S. REACHES NEW PEAK: This
is likely to be in the daily Oval Office briefing: The Chinese trade surplus
with the United States rose in September to the highest level on record for a
single month, Reuters calculated using official data
dating back to 2008. It's a statistic that's sure to rile a White House almost
singularly focused on reversing the country's bilateral trade deficits. The
number jumped last month to $28.08 billion from $26.23 billion, according to
Chinese customs data released on Friday.
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From
day one of his campaign we knew President Trump would be terrible for women --
and today made it clearer than ever. President Trump just took an outrageous
step to turn the clock back on women’s health: he just announced a new policy
that that will allow employers across the country to decide whether birth control
should be included as part of a woman’s health insurance. President Trump wants to make birth
control about ideology, but for women and their families in the 21st century,
birth control is about being healthy and financially secure. This
shameful decision not only takes women backward, but will take hundreds of
dollars out of their bank accounts. In short, President Trump just rolled out a
tax on women’s health care. Access to
affordable birth control is critical for millions of women in our country, and
this move shows us once again that President Trump will stop at nothing to
enact his deeply harmful, anti-women agenda.
This is a direct attack on the progress we’ve made for women’s health
and rights, and I’m calling on every Republican who claims to care about
women’s health and economic security to join me in fighting back against it.
[Patty Murray for Senate, Washington]
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TRUMP |
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BROADCOM PROMISES IN QUESTION - Broadcom CEO Hock
Tan stood beside President Donald Trump in the Oval Office on Thursday to tout
that the semiconductor company's shift of its headquarters from Singapore to
the U.S. will come with investments of $3 billion per year in research and
development spending and $6 billion per year on manufacturing. Trump echoed
those figures in a tweet hours later. But here's the fine print: Those
investments aren't new. The company later confirmed to POLITICO that those
investments include the firm's existing U.S. investments, plus those of an
American company it is angling to acquire. Broadcom announced plans to acquire
Brocade Communications last November, but the deal is under review at the
Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States. That body questions
whether foreign entities buying an American corporation poses a national
security concern - scrutiny that would be squelched with Broadcom's planned
move to the U.S. (POLITICO's Morning Tech, November 3, 2017)
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