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.
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.
Rick Horowitz | Posted 05.04.2009 | World
First the skinny guy shakes everybody's hand -- then he tells us he's got a cold!
Gary Shapiro | Posted 05.01.2009 | Business
I don't know precisely when progressives in this country gave up on free trade. Because when they did, without perhaps even realizing it, they turned their backs on the developing world.
Gary Shapiro | Posted 04.20.2009 | Business
President Barack Obama will soon be making his first trip to Latin America to attend the Summit of the Americas. This visit is an important opportunit...
AP | E. EDUARDO CASTILLO | Posted 04.18.2009 | World
MEXICO CITY — Mexico is imposing tariffs of 10 to 45 percent on dozens of U.S. exports ranging from fruit and wine to washing machines in retali...
Washington Post | Anthony Faiola | Posted 04.17.2009 | Business
At least 17 of the 20 major nations that vowed at a November summit to avoid protectionist steps that could spark a global trade war have violated tha...
Gary Shapiro | Posted 03.28.2009 | Politics
Listening to President Barack Obama's speech Tuesday night to a joint session of Congress, I did a double take. "The only way to fully restore Amer...
AP | COLLEEN BARRY and ARIEL DAVID | Posted 03.17.2009 | Business
ROME — The Group of Seven finance ministers pledged Saturday to avoid resorting to protectionism as they try to stimulate their own economies in...
The Independent | Adrian Hamilton | Posted 03.08.2009 | World
One by one the great and good of the land have stepped forward to pronounce on the wave of strikes over foreign workers and to condemn them. "Xenophob...
Deutsche Welle | Posted 03.02.2009 | World
The United States will not get away with expanding a "Buy American" protectionist measures as part of its economic rescue plan, European Union officia...
Dave Johnson | Posted 12.31.2008 | Business
Some people make a lot of money for themselves by undermining our wage, safety and pollution standards. So they tell us that protecting ourselves is wrong.
Anu Bradford | Posted 08.09.2008 | Business
China's new antimonopoly law reflects the resurgence of protectionist sentiments in China following the increase in foreign acquisitions of Chinese corporations. How should the US respond?
Nathan Gardels | Posted 07.23.2008 | Business
Robert Reich: "Capitalism has always required regulation in order to ensure against fraud and excessive speculation. Greenspan allowed the economic crisis to happen because he believed that capitalism was self-correcting."
William Bernstein | Posted 07.10.2008 | Politics
Obama is highly intelligent, highly trained -- and he knows full well that the nation as a whole benefits from free trade, even if substantial minorities are harmed by it.
James P. Hoffa | Posted 06.14.2008 | Business
For the past 15 years, anyone who opposed a so-called "free trade agreement" was labeled a protectionist. And that was the end of the story. The TRADE Act allows us to present an alternative.
AP | Christopher Bodeen | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business
Beijing is increasingly concerned over protectionist sentiments in the U.S. Congress, China's finance minister said Sunday, warning legislation target...
Sen. Fritz Hollings | Posted 05.28.2009 | Politics