The WTO's ruling late last week in a case involving Boeing and European arch-rival Airbus is a big and welcome victory that shows rule-based trade works.
Leo W. Gerard | Posted 10.18.2009 | Business
When the leaders of the G-20 nations arrive in Pittsburgh, I want them to know I am fomenting revolution -- Industrial revolution. Specifically, a 21st-century burgeoning of green manufacturing in the United States.
Edwin D. Hill | Posted 09.21.2009 | Politics
Manufacturing is moving into a new, energy-efficient stage, but it's in danger of leaving out the American worker altogether without an aggressive approach in Washington to encourage its domestic growth.
Dave Johnson | Posted 09.19.2009 | Business
Why is America's National Association of Manufacturers echoing the Cato Institute's views against American manufacturing? Has this organization lost its way? Do NAM members know about this?
Georges Ugeux | Posted 09.12.2009 | World
Now is the time for the administration to send a clear signaling to Iran that, in a measured and limited way, they no longer object to business dealings in sectors that carry no military or nuclear energy risks.
Leo W. Gerard | Posted 09.04.2009 | Business
Why does the U.S. put up with unfair trade with China?
Dave Johnson | Posted 09.03.2009 | Politics
Making things in America is crucially important to our future economy. But it matters as much that we use the right words as that we explore the right ideas and policies.
Gary Shapiro | Posted 08.29.2009 | Business
Mexico did not take lightly to the U.S. closing our border to their trucks -- that's why they're called "trade wars."
Mike Elk | Posted 08.21.2009 | Business
Without a new American manufacturing policy there will be no economic recovery. We need to move beyond a bubble economy built on debt and financial speculation and into a real economy that actually makes products.
Thom Hartmann | Posted 08.14.2009 | Politics
If President Obama and our Congress don't soon learn the lessons Alexander Hamilton taught us in 1791, we'll continue to see American industry slowly die.
Paul Paz y Miño | Posted 08.09.2009 | Green
Chevron is fighting tooth and nail to save themselves from being held accountable for 3 billion barrels of spilled oil and the nearly 1,000 open pits they left behind in Ecuador.
Sen. Fritz Hollings | Posted 08.08.2009 | Politics
Obama can't perpetuate four more years of the fraud of "free trade." He can't spend trillions for bail outs to create jobs and not plug the hole of offshoring jobs.
Ralph Gomory | Posted 08.08.2009 | Business
Vague talk about future innovations, a post-industrial society, or an explosion of services exports is not the stuff on which to bet the prosperity of a nation.
Gary Shapiro | Posted 07.18.2009 | Business
Will we step boldly into the new economic reality with a plan for creating jobs? Or will we look to unsustainable government protections that will force the US to take a backseat in the new era?
Leo W. Gerard | Posted 07.02.2009 | Business
A group of tire importers that should be competitors banded together recently to ally themselves with China in a trade case. Doesn't sound like th...
Les Leopold | Posted 06.15.2009 | Green
We need to a new way to look at protectionism -- one that both protects the globe and that protects jobs.
Dan Kovalik | Posted 06.13.2009 | World
Despite the claims of the Colombian government and those in the U.S. eager to consummate "free trade" pacts, the human rights situation in that country is deteriorating fast.
Dean Baker | Posted 06.04.2009 | Business
The economists and the media somehow failed to notice that professionals were intentionally sheltered from international competition and instead just trumpeted them as the winners in the global economy.
Larry Beinhart | Posted 06.02.2009 | Comedy
It reeks of rhetoric, it sounds like malarkey/ but we're being looted by our own oligarchy./ The lesson is tragic, yet once again funny:/ rich people can't be trusted to handle their money.
Bama Arethrya | Posted 06.01.2009 | World
We should think about commemorating May Day this year by standing in solidarity with the workers of Colombia and the Philippines, and anywhere where organizing is life-threatening.
Sen. Fritz Hollings | Posted 05.28.2009 | Politics
The president and Congress continue in their conspiracy of free trade in order to get the campaign contributions from Corporate America and the financial community.
Alan Schram | Posted 05.27.2009 | Business
Elizabeth Warren, along with other proponents of government restrictions, should put their money where their mouths are, quit their jobs and start a credit card company.
Randy Charles Epping | Posted 05.23.2009 | Business
By getting our leaders to open the world's borders to trade, we not only help ourselves: we help developing countries of the world and become true partners in a renewed 21st century economy.
Sen. Fritz Hollings | Posted 05.17.2009 | Politics
I don't think we'll ever teach Afghan warlords to like democracy and grow cotton instead of poppies.
Huffington Post | Stuart Whatley | Posted 05.17.2009 | World
President Obama travels to Mexico Thursday morning as the first stop in his Latin America trip, after which he will join other regional leaders in Tri...
Jim Arkedis | Posted 11.11.2009 | World