When the Commerce Department reported last week that the trade deficit in June approached $50 billion, it set off a new round of economic doomsaying.

上周美国商务部报告称，6月份的贸易逆差接近500亿美元，这引发了新一轮的经济末日预言。

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For them, commerce and economic development were agents of civilization.

对他们来说，商业和经济的发展是推动文明社会发展的动力。

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"So,this kind of cyclical problem of displacement is extremely unsettling for the population and limits the possibility for the population to reinvest in economic activities such as agriculture,commerce and so on and so forth,".

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In other economic news, Iran's commerce minister Mehdi Ghazanfari repeated an earlier warning by parliament speaker Ali Larijani that Tehran would respond to any inspection of its cargo ships on the high seas.

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Second, the order fails to address the numerous, creative ways that federal agencies oversee economic commerce other than by issuing formal regulations.

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Today, the only recognized limitations are that (1) Congress may not regulate non-economic behavior based solely on an attenuated link to interstate commerce, and (2) Congress may not regulate intrastate economic behavior if its aggregate impact on interstate commerce is negligible.

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Mark Doms, of Maryland, to be Under Secretary of Commerce for Economic Affairs, vice Rebecca M.

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