by Leo Gerard | Mar 1, 2016 | Blog, China Currency Showdown, Trade, Trans-Pacific Partnership
It’s lights out in Lorain on March 31. The town’s steel mill, site of a new electric arc furnace and $120 million investment, had given 1,200 Ohioans good middle-class jobs this time last year. But by April, a relentless avalanche of underpriced Chinese steel will...
by Leo Gerard | Feb 23, 2016 | Blog, Jobs and Growth, Making it in America, Trade, Trans-Pacific Partnership
In the week before Valentine’s Day, United Technologies expressed its love for its devoted Indiana employees, workers whose labor had kept the corporation profitable, by informing 2,100 of them at two facilities that it was shipping their factories, their jobs, their...
by Dave Johnson | Apr 24, 2015 | Blog, China Currency Showdown, Trade, Trans-Pacific Partnership
President Obama, speaking to the Organizing for America (OFA) Summit Thursday, said that people who have concerns about the Fast Track Trade Promotion Authority process and the still-secret Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) "don't know what they're talking about," and...
by Dave Johnson | Feb 6, 2015 | Blog, Economy, Making it in America, Trade
Alongside Friday's good employment data, there is a brouhaha on the Internets over claims that the government's employment numbers are a "big lie." Jim Clifton, Chairman and CEO of the Gallup polling company penned "The Big Lie: 5.6% Unemployment," claiming that "the...
by Dave Johnson | Jul 8, 2014 | China Currency Showdown, Trade
The sixth annual U.S.-China Strategic and Economic Dialogue (S&ED) starts tomorrow in Beijing. This is like a "summit" meeting between the two countries, with high-level discussions of issues ranging from North Korea and wider regional security problems, to...
by Leo Gerard | Apr 29, 2014 | Economy, Making it in America
On Feb. 12, Edward Lewis Neal told his wife goodbye and drove to the Cooper Tire plant in Texarkana, Ark., where his co-workers called him Preacher because of his ministry at the Springdale Church of God and Christ. When an ambulance took Preacher from Cooper Tire...
