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Policymakers overseeing globalisation are facing a new range of national security pressures that are reshaping how they interact with the global economy.

The American technology company Intel says it is working to address a shortage of semiconductor chips affecting the automotive industry. That same day, U.S. President Joe Biden convened CEOs for a virtual summit on the semiconductor supply chain.

eye on the news Climate Change Follies President Biden’s war on fracking will raise electricity prices while accomplishing nothing on climate. Infrastructure and energy Politics and law Don Quixote would be proud of President Biden’s climate-change executive orders, which take windmill-tilting to new heights. They will have no effect on the climate but will fall on the U.S. economy like a cudgel. The most significant of Biden’s orders is the one banning new drilling permi...

Biden names Indian-American Bharat Ramamurti as National Economic Council member Top Searches This story is from December 21, 2020 Biden names Indian-American Bharat Ramamurti as National Economic Council member PTI / Updated: Dec 21, 2020, 22:33 IST FacebookTwitterLinkedinEMail File photo of Bharat Ramamurti: Pic credit ( Reuters) WASHINGTON: US President-elect Joe Biden on Monday named Indian-American Bharat Ramamurti as one of the three new members of the National Economic Council that coord...

Joe Biden names Indian American Bharat Ramamurti as National Economic Council member SECTIONS Last Updated: Dec 21, 2020, 10:40 PM IST Share Synopsis Ramamurti is the Managing Director of the Corporate Power programme at the Roosevelt Institute. He was also appointed in April to serve on the Congressional Oversight Commission for the CARES Act by Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer. Reuters Previously, Ramamurti was the top economic adviser to Senator Elizabeth Warren during her 2020 presiden...

every time prices start to go up, especially in an election year, politicians dust off their three-point plans for $2 gas. >> president obama, that was march 15th mocking challenger newt gingrich. today he wasnt promising $2 a gallon gas or dusting off a three-point plan. he did unveil a five-point plan to lower prices by cracking down on speculators. >> we cant afford a situation where speculators artificially manipulate markets by buying up oil, creating the perception of a shortage ...

>> good evening. it is 10:00 on the east coast. we begin keeping them honest with president obama doing what presidents do in election years with proposals they know will win votes and dont have the votes to pass in congress. they try to pass them anyway even if they expect them to fail. sometimes, especially, if they expect them to fail to make a point. two examples tonight. one in texas and one on gas prices which the president appears to be doing with just a couple weeks ago he mock...

>> the protesters who climbed a 70-foot-high sculpture in zuccotti park this morning made his way down safely and when he did, police immediately arrested him. just about an hour ago, the state of nevada announced it was moving back the date of next years presidential caucus. it was scheduled for january 14th but nevada will now hold the caucus february 4th. new hampshire republican leaders had encouraged nevada republicans to make the change. and rick perry went hunting in iowa th...

something because the world went in a way that didnt seem wrong. >> the protesters who climbed a 70-foot-high sculpture in zuccotti park this morning made his way down safely and when he did, police immediately arrested him. just about an hour ago, the state of nevada announced it was moving back the date of next years presidential caucus. it was scheduled for january 14th but nevada will now hold the caucus february 4th. new hampshire republican leaders had encouraged nevada republi...

run. and its just been announced that french president nicolas sarkozy, along with british prime minister david cameron, will host a major international conference in paris on september the 1st to discuss the transition from military to civilian cooperation. thats a poignant date as colonel gadhafi came to power september the 1st, 1969. and at this very moment nbc chief foreign correspondent richard engel is on the ground in libya with the latest. richard? >> reporter: a degree of chao...