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.
China fired back against proposed tariffs on Chinese tires imported to the United States by announcing Sunday that an anti-dumping and anti-subsidies ...
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama on Friday slapped punitive tariffs on all car and light truck tires entering the United States from China in...
Just as in his health care speech tonight, Obama must soon address the fundamental threat to our security that can no longer be ignored.
Instead of spending their money revitalizing the agricultural sector, NGO programs round up small-scale farmers to build roads and clean out sewage systems in return for food vouchers.
A country's economic power comes from manufacturing. But while other countries have industrial policies, America has a de-industrialization policy.
The CEO of the UK-India Business Council discusses her thoughts on the way the British do business in India, compared with their American counterparts.
Very soon we will have an opportunity to see where President Obama comes down on trade with China, and whether the U.S. tire industry will be granted relief.
While the world looks for innovative solutions to global poverty, it is clear that trade must be part of the answer.
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?
Our country's decision-making processes appear to be under the control of a wealthy Wall Street few. And they are selling China the rope with which it is hanging us.
When Obama meets with President Hu next month, he should emulate one of his predecessors -- in fact one he has spoken of admiringly before -- and say something that could change history.
Immigration is an area where people argue from individual experience. The worker in the US who has lost a job and concludes it is because of undocumented worker is not likely to be persuaded by the statistics.
We don't sell enough things because we don't make enough things anymore. Over time this means we get poorer and poorer as we borrow more and more.
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.
Conservative free-market conservative ideologues manage to make a bad thing out of paying American workers good wages and benefits.
The bilateral talks, or G-2, between the U.S. and China have resulted in little substantive progress. This is because there is a continuing, inexplicable failure on the part of the U.S. with other countries to pressure China to curb its currency manipulation.
Hans Timmer, Director of Economic Forecasting at the World Bank, told the Wall Street Journal that China will lead the world out of this recession. He appears to be correct.
Trade is only 13% of GDP so it can't be the primary driver of growth (at least not yet). But suppose it grew just enough to pick up the slack from the drop in consumer spending that is coming.
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.
All this talk about a second stimulus package is fundamentally besides the point. What we need is a comprehensive policy package that is very simply focused on one thing and one thing only: jobs.
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.
Liberal groups allied with the White House are fuming -- mostly in private -- about some comments President Obama made yesterday attacking a provision...
Let's ensure that history does not remember us just as "consumers" of the earth and its resources, but as people who take seriously the God-given mandate to "serve and preserve" the earth.
The Democratic Republic of the Congo, scene of the deadliest conflict since World War II, remains mired in violence in significant part because of the...
