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The conglomerate said Tuesday that it plans to invest more than $2 billion in China through 2012 in research and development, technology and financial services partnerships. The move marks GE's "confidence in China's long-term economic prospects."

Investors take note: Despite the calls for order, national policymakers are dealing with an increasingly haphazard scenario loaded with counterproductive results and unintended consequences. The result could be a slide toward protectionism.

In a new article, political scientist Ian Bremmer and economist Nouriel Roubini assert that the free-market system of capitalism has been so damaged by the recent financial crisis that the West's era of political and economic dominance may be gone for good.

The unexpected -- and much needed -- solidarity in response to the financial meltdown is now quickly fading as healing proceeds. Mutual accusations of protectionism, for example, are becoming common again. Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao, for one, is cranking up the rhetoric.

One of the world's leading economic advisory organizations is urging governments to avoid protectionism as they grapple with the global recession. The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), advisor to 27 high-income countries, announced Tuesday it now expects global trade to...

The New York Times reports that the 'Buy America' clause in the economic stimulus package that President Obama signed into law may not be as absolute as some would like to think. The clause includes language stipulating that products need not be made in America if "the relevant manufactured goods...

What could be the most controversial component of the roughly $787 billion fiscal stimulus package, as it relates to investors? The "Buy American" clause. Proponents and opponents offer starkly differently interpretations of the clause's impact. Organized labor and other pro-union groups argue...