by Dave Johnson | Dec 14, 2009 | Blog, Making it in America
Those advocating capitualtion on trade and manufacturing are hard at work. From the National Journal's Congress Daily today, Trade Restraint? Those who follow U.S.-Chinese trade frictions must be working overtime these days. The number of high-profile trade complaints...
by Steven Capozzola | Nov 23, 2009 | Blog, Making it in America
The Associated Press reports that China has criticized last week's U.S.-China Commission (USCC) report for asserting that Chinese spies are aggressively stealing U.S. secrets. Beijing warns that the report is "full of prejudice" and that it could damage U.S.-China...
by Dave Johnson | Oct 19, 2009 | Blog, Making it in America
A few weeks ago, in a case involving a tire import surge President Obama enforced our trade agreement with China. The agreement spelled out that a disruptive surge in imports would be remedied by imposing a tariff, which is what the President did. Of course he was...
by Dave Johnson | Oct 9, 2009 | Blog, Economy, Making it in America
Short-term gains for a few. Long-term harm to the rest of us. Again and again we have seen American industries exported, the plants closed, the jobs lost, and government officials just letting it happen. The workers in the other countries are almost always paid less...
by Leo Gerard | Oct 8, 2009 | Blog, Making it in America
In the title tune to the 1934 musical Anything Goes,"Cole Porter says "times have changed," since the stock market crashed in 1929, but the super rich, like John D. Rockefeller Jr., "still can hoard enough money to let Max Gordon produce his shows." The lyrics also...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Oct 2, 2009 | Blog, Economy, Making it in America
Taken out of context, this argument sounds almost like a right-wing or corporatist knock against the climate change bill that's pending in the Senate: The bill that was introduced this week by Sens. John Kerry and Barbara Boxer could put at risk 4 million American...
