by Dave Johnson | Feb 26, 2014 | China Currency Showdown, Trade
The United States could create up to 5.8 million new jobs, reduce our trade deficits by up to $500 billion per year by 2015 and increase U.S. gross domestic product by up to $720 billion per year if we act to end global currency manipulation. Simple as that....
by Dave Johnson | Feb 26, 2014 | Making it in America, Trade
Bloomberg News has a great report on the pressure to ban "Buy America" procurement policies in the trade agreements the United States is currently negotiating. Bloomberg focuses on an Oregon company making streetcars to show the damage that banning Buy America...
by Dave Johnson | Feb 24, 2014 | Trade, Trans-Pacific Partnership
A law affecting content on the Internet that was rejected by Congress shows up in a trade agreement designed to bypass and override Congress. Small, innovative companies that manufacture low-cost, generic drugs find their products blocked. Those are examples of what...
by Dave Johnson | Feb 21, 2014 | Conservatism, Democracy
Here is how it works these days: You start hearing about a big, national problem and then it becomes a drumbeat. First there are a few articles and columns mentioning that such-and-such is a problem. Then a number of articles appear, then a “study” from a “think tank”...
by Dave Johnson | Feb 21, 2014 | Minimum Wage
The Gap announced this week it is raising the minimum wage that it will pay employees. Walmart said it is considering doing the same. Last year voters in New Jersey and many municipalities passed minimum wage increases. President Obama ordered federal contractors to...
