Myanmar President Thein Sein’s visit to Washington this week continues the ongoing process of normalization of relations between the United States and Myanmar and promotion of the reforms that country is undertaking. Those reforms have led to the easing of U.S. and western sanctions and a groundswell of investor interest in that market.

This is the first in a World Trade Week blog series that examines a U.S.-E.U. free trade and investment agreement.

In proclaiming World Trade Week (May 19-25, 2013), President Obama again stated his administration’s intention to launch talks for a Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) with the European Union. Let’s get started already.

“One word: plastics.”

Mr. McGuire from The Graduate might be on to something again. Because of America’s natural gas boom, plastics and chemical companies plan to build new plants and create new jobs.

Last week, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) scored President Obama’s budget. Although he pitched it as a “balanced approach” of spending cuts and tax increases it seems the President’s scales are out-of-wack.

While collecting data for the “Transparency & Accountability” section of our 2012 Leaders & Laggards report, I discovered that Texas’s online institutional resumes, while a bit bland in delivery, were worlds better than the higher education data most states provide their students.

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