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 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 | 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 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 | Oct 23, 2012 | Blog, China Currency Showdown
Monday's final campaign debate focuses on foreign policy. Will it focus on our policy of running huge trade deficits with China? Every dollar of trade deficits makes our country a dollar poorer. That trade deficit is the deficit that our Washington elites should be...
by Dave Johnson | Feb 16, 2012 | Blog, China Currency Showdown
As China's Vice President Xi Jinping visits the US Republican Presidential candidate Mitt Romney blasts President Obama for not being tough enough on China. Meanwhile Romney says nothing about House Republicans keeping the China Currency Bill from being brought to the...
