by Dave Johnson | Feb 13, 2012 | Blog, China Currency Showdown
Get to know the name Xi Jinping. He is currently Vice President of China, and in 2013 is expected to become general secretary of the Chinese Communist Party, the next leader of the country. Xi is traveling in the US this week, meeting with President Obama and them...
by Dave Johnson | Feb 2, 2012 | Blog, China Currency Showdown, Economy, Making it in America
This week three new reports described even more continuing damage to our economy caused by China's trade cheating -- and our own lack of response. Even as the auto industry recovers and auto-assembly jobs are returning, the auto-parts industry and jobs are not. The...
by Dave Johnson | Oct 19, 2011 | Blog, China Currency Showdown
Last week, in These Are The House Republicans Blocking The Crackdown On China Currency Manipulation. Call Them. I named 61 House Republicans who had co-sponsored the China currency bill, but who now side with China by refusing to help force a vote on the bill. The...
by Dave Johnson | Oct 14, 2011 | Blog, China Currency Showdown
Congress just passed three more NAFTA-like trade deals, so our country's trade deficit is going to get even worse. And pressure on working people to accept pay and benefit cuts and longer and harder working hours is going to get even worse. And the rewards to the top...
by Dave Johnson | Sep 29, 2011 | Blog, China Currency Showdown, Making it in America
The fight to get China to stop their currency manipulation is heating up. China keeps its currency very low, giving their goods a huge price advantage even before all their other trade manipulations come into play. This costs us jobs, factories, companies and entire...
by Dave Johnson | Sep 15, 2010 | Blog, China Currency Showdown
Since China joined the World Trade Organization (WTO) our country's balance of trade has gotten worse and worse and we have lost jobs and jobs (and money and money). Between 2001 and 2008 we lost 2.4 million jobs just to China. Normally a situation like this balances...
