Jet Wars: Episode XVIII — The Two Towers

First, from the Ivory Tower:

A Yale University professor, who was a top commerce department official in the Clinton administration, throws in his two-bits’ worth about the Airbus-Boeing subsidy fight. He says the issues will overwhelm the World Trade Organization, and suggests binding third-party mediation in this essay written for Newsweek’s international edition.

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/7306434/site/newsweek/

And then from the Morton Salt Building — the Chicago office tower where Boeing has its headquarters:

Boeing chairman Lew Platt gets in his share of saber-rattling, in an interview with the Chicago Tribune.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/chi-050328boeingtradewar-story,1,6663226.story?coll=chi-business-hed