Ten years after the United States officially ended its yearly review of China's trade status, no one can credibly argue that China is any freer or more attentive to human rights, nor can they claim the United States is better off economically.
Michele Nash-Hoff | Posted 05.07.2012
The Association for Manufacturing Excellence (AME) is joining with leading organizations, such as the National Association of Manufacturers (NAM), and...
Howard Steven Friedman | Posted 04.03.2012
The following conversation did not take place... but wouldn't it have been interesting if it did? Geithner: Glad I found you. We really need to talk...
AP | CHRISTOPHER S. RUGABER | Posted 02.26.2012
WASHINGTON — The Obama administration on Tuesday declined to label China a currency manipulator after seeing recent increases in the value of th...
Peter Navarro and Greg Autry | Posted 01.17.2012
We should address this clear and present danger to our economy and our sovereignty straight on and cut off Beijing's purchases of American debt. Shutting off China's access to this currency disposal site will break their sterilization system.
HuffingtonPost.com | Jon Ward | Posted 12.13.2011
WASHINGTON -- President Obama submitted three long-awaited free trade agreements to Congress this month, which were quickly ratified Wednesday, but Re...
David Coates | Posted 12.12.2011
Our current trade imbalance with China will not be fixed by currency manipulation alone, because American economic vulnerability is not rooted simply in the relative strength of the dollar.
Ian Fletcher | Posted 12.12.2011
Small steps like Currency Exchange Rate Oversight Reform Act are the hard, boring stuff out of which significant political progress is made. It won't be easy, but clearly the political momentum is in favor of doing something about this problem.
Ian Fletcher | Posted 11.09.2011
If Romney truly understands the underlying economics of our present trade mess, he knows that the present order is unsustainable. And he -- and his backers -- probably calculate that they'd rather have a Republican clean it up than a Democrat.
Ian Fletcher | Posted 10.19.2011
The dollar needs to be dispassionately evaluated for the costs and benefits of any particular price it bears, not misunderstood as a totem of national vitality.
Michele Nash-Hoff | Posted 10.24.2011
Most people would say it's no secret and that the answer is obvious -- lower wages in China compared to the United States. However, labor is only one part of the total cost of a product.
Robert E. Scott | Posted 10.01.2011
Revaluation by China and other Asian currency manipulators could help reduce the U.S. current account deficit, which increased $94.3 billion (25.1 percent) in 2010.
Ian Fletcher | Posted 06.21.2011
Even free traders thinking through how to save as much of free trade as they can should take the option of a tariff seriously. They're running out of time.
Robert E. Scott | Posted 06.11.2011
U.S. export growth to China looks impressive in isolation. But this is a biased and one-sided view -- exports have been overwhelmed by the growth of U.S. imports from China and the bilateral trade deficit, as shown in the graph below.
Reuters | Al Yoon | Posted 05.25.2011
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Global stocks rose on Friday as traders took on riskier investments following a Libya ceasefire that reduced tension in the reg...
Ian Fletcher | Posted 05.25.2011
The idea of "fair" trade is very appealing, whether confronting the plight of autoworkers in Michigan or farmers in the Third World. Unfortunately, it will be only a small part of any trade solution for the U.S. and the world as a whole.
Scott Paul | Posted 05.25.2011
Secretary Locke -- our next ambassador to China if confirmed by the Senate -- will need to clean up a mess decades in the making.
Ian Fletcher | Posted 05.25.2011
It is sometimes suggested that our trade problems (job losses, international indebtedness) will go away on their own once currency values adjust. Bott...
Robert E. Scott | Posted 05.25.2011
It's time to end unfair trade practices, and to do that the President needs a new crop of advisors who care more about American job creation than outsourcing and MNC profits.
Danny Schechter | Posted 05.25.2011
On the eve of the Chinese President's visit to the United States, and in the midst of intense speculation about his intentions--and ours--I found myse...
Daniel Wagner | Posted 05.25.2011
In the absence of any realistic alternative to replace the supremacy of the dollar, it is likely to remain the dominant global currency for many years to come. No other currency is more widely accepted or used.
Scott Paul | Posted 05.25.2011
President Obama delivered just the right speech in Tucson. Can he replicate that performance for his State of the Union address on Jan. 25? For the ...
WSJ | Alex Frangos | Posted 05.25.2011
Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz, dismissing the Federal Reserve's quantitative easing as a "beggar-thy-neighbor" strategy of currency de...
Bob Samuels | Posted 05.25.2011
If we follow current global economic trends to the logical conclusion, most of the money in the world will soon be held by a small group of investors who will hold no allegiance to any nation or ideology.
Gilbert B. Kaplan | Posted 05.25.2011
America has sent a strong message: we will not sit idly by while the folks in Washington ignore the jobs situation. And yet by not acting, that is exactly what the Senate will be doing.
Scott Paul | Posted 05.04.2012