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...
by Dave Johnson | Apr 28, 2014 | Blog, Trade
I discussed the Trans-Pacific Partnership and what President Obama's trip to Asia could mean for American workers on "The Sunday Show with Philip Maldari" Sunday morning, on KPFA-FM in Berkeley, Calif. Listen to the full show here: With me on the show was Tim...
by Dave Johnson | Apr 25, 2014 | Blog, Trade, Trans-Pacific Partnership
President Obama is in Asia, partly to "reassure" partner countries that the U.S. is a strong ally and partly to push the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP). Both are to counter China's growing influence. While TPP is being sold as a "strategic" countermeasure to China,...
by Dave Johnson | Apr 22, 2014 | Blog, Trade, Trans-Pacific Partnership
The New York Times editorial board finally gets it right about trade in its Sunday editorial, "This Time, Get Global Trade Right." Some excerpts: Many Americans have watched their neighbors lose good-paying jobs as their employers sent their livelihoods to China. Over...
by Dave Johnson | Apr 16, 2014 | Blog, Trade
LISTEN: Dave Johnson on the Rick Smith Show talks about China's currency manipulation. The Treasury Department released its "Semi-Annual Report to Congress on International Economic and Exchange Rate Policies" this week, and went to great lengths to find a way not to...
by Dave Johnson | Apr 3, 2014 | Blog, Trade
Today's February trade deficit report shows that exports fell, which costs jobs, and imports increased, which costs jobs. The U.S. international goods and services trade deficit in February was $42.3 billion, up 7.7 percent from a revised $39.3 billion in January....
