We are not competing in the global economy because the Fortune 500 and the money crowd in New York, are getting rich investing, developing, and producing in China.
Edward Harrison | Posted 12.03.2009 | Business
I see a protectionist response in retaliation as a likely outcome unless China changes its tune -- not that I favor that outcome. We will soon know if protectionism works.
Arthur Rosenfeld | Posted 12.02.2009 | World
Chinese people see our standard of living and are willing to work for less to get what we have. Long term this process can't continue, because cheap manufacturing requires simple living.
Sen. Fritz Hollings | Posted 11.20.2009 | Politics
The President, as he dithers on how to get in a war that he should be out of, has called a White House summit on jobs to dither about how to stay out of the Trade War that we ought to be in.
Diane Francis | Posted 10.15.2009 | Business
An examination of the causes of the financial meltdown and proposals for reform to prevent new catastrophic bubbles from forming and bursting.
Les Leopold | Posted 10.08.2009 | Business
Remarkably, the America of 2010 is exporting raw materials and importing high tech renewable energy products. And this is happening less than 100 miles from Redmond, the home of Microsoft.
Gilbert B. Kaplan | Posted 10.05.2009 | Business
If you were going to start a trade war against the United States, it is unlikely that your first salvo would be on chicken parts, or as the Chinese rather charmingly first announced, on dorkings.
Robert L. Borosage | Posted 11.29.2009 | Politics
If the U.S. increases exports, mercantilist nations like China, Germany and Japan will have to save less and spend more, import more and export less.
Dave Johnson | Posted 11.23.2009 | Business
It seems that after eight years of general lawlessness we're at a point where it is expected that those with power can do anything they want regardless of agreements or laws.
Gary Shapiro | Posted 11.23.2009 | Business
Pittsburgh's experience offers a road map for American cities adjusting to manufacturing downturns and the new realities of the modern global economy.
Eric Lotke | Posted 11.21.2009 | Politics
The G-20 Summit in Pittsburgh provides an opportunity for Americans to move beyond shibboleths of free trade and protectionism and to question the true functioning of the market.
AP | By TOM RAUM | Posted 11.21.2009 | Business
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Dave Johnson | Posted 11.18.2009 | Business
Why, exactly, is protectionism so bad? Why can't we have fair trade that lifts workers and protects the environment instead of unregulated free trade that exploits workers and the environment?
Dave Johnson | Posted 11.14.2009 | Business
President Obama has decided to enforce our trade laws and imposed a three year tariff on Chinese tires. I suspect the country is about to witness a corporate hissy fit.
L.A. Times | David Pierson | Posted 11.13.2009 | Business
China fired back against proposed tariffs on Chinese tires imported to the United States by announcing Sunday that an anti-dumping and anti-subsidies ...
Dave Johnson | Posted 10.19.2009 | Business
A country's economic power comes from manufacturing. But while other countries have industrial policies, America has a de-industrialization policy.
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.
Diane Francis | Posted 09.11.2009 | World
The Three Amigos Summit which just ended -- U.S., Canada and Mexico -- is the private gathering of North America's dysfunctional family.
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."
Danny Schechter | Posted 08.15.2009 | Business
Many in China already resent US economic bullying and blame Wall Street for selling them junk loans and infected financial products that have caused vast economic losses.
Wall Street Journal | Posted 08.01.2009 | World
China is expected to ban imports of U.S. chicken in coming days, a move likely to deliver a blow to the struggling American chicken industry and escal...
The Plumline | Posted 07.30.2009 | Politics
Liberal groups allied with the White House are fuming -- mostly in private -- about some comments President Obama made yesterday attacking a provision...
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.
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.
Sen. Fritz Hollings | Posted 12.11.2009 | Politics