by Dave Johnson | May 7, 2015 | Blog, Trade, Trans-Pacific Partnership
President Obama is scheduled to visit Nike's Oregon headquarters on Friday to promote the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP). Yes, Nike – a company that grew to billions by outsourcing jobs to overseas sweatshops, a company that sets up P.O.-box subsidiaries in tax...
by Terrance Heath | May 6, 2015 | Blog, Conservatism, Election 2016, This Is The GOP
The addition of former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee — along with Ben Carson and Carly Fiorina — to the increasingly crowded field of GOP presidential hopefuls officially makes this the week of the long-shot GOP candidates. Huckabee’s path to the White House is a...
by Isaiah J. Poole | May 6, 2015 | Blog, Trade, Trans-Pacific Partnership
Former Obama administration economist Jared Bernstein is taking his former White House colleagues to task in his new book, "The Reconnection Agenda," for a missed connection between trade policy and jobs. Specifically, Bernstein disagrees with the administration's...
by Dave Johnson | May 6, 2015 | Blog, Trade, Trans-Pacific Partnership
This week's news reports make it seem as if President Obama might be preparing to jump into the Republican presidential primaries, using trade as his issue. He should be careful, though: That's a (very) crowded field, and using trade to empower corporations over...
by Bill Scher | May 6, 2015 | Blog, Conservatism
Thursday election in Great Britain will be a fascinating case study on multiple levels. Can an incumbent party survive a record of austerity? How can a party recover from past failures on the economy? Can the left side of the ideological spectrum come to agreement on...
by Dave Johnson | May 5, 2015 | Blog, Trade
The U.S. Census Bureau reported Tuesday that the March goods and services trade deficit was $51.4 billion. This was an increase of $15.5 billion, or 43.1 percent, from the revised figure of $35.9 billion in February. March exports were $187.8 billion, up $1.6 billion...
