CPB
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The volume of goods moving across national borders increased by 4.4% in 2025, a pickup from the 2.5% rate of growth recorded in 2024, according to figures released Wednesday by the Netherlands Bureau for Economic Policy Analysis—also known as the CPB—which has long tracked world trade as a key influence on the Dutch economy.
According to the CPB data, Europe saw its exports fall slightly from 2024, but Chinese overseas sales rose by 8.5%.
“You really don’t want to spend that amount of time just trying to get somebody handcuffed,” said Kerlikowske, the former CPB commissioner, of the video of the arrest in Portland.
From Salon
The CPB said its board determined that without federal resources, it wouldn’t serve the public interest to continue as a “nonfunctional entity.”
The CPB distributed most of its funding to about 1,500 public radio and television stations around the country.
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