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.
Gilbert B. Kaplan | Posted 09.14.2009 | World
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.
Salena Tramel | Posted 10.29.2009 | World
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.
Margee Ensign | Posted 09.10.2009 | Politics
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.
Dave Johnson | Posted 09.06.2009 | Business
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.
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.
Dave Johnson | Posted 08.31.2009 | Business
Conservative free-market conservative ideologues manage to make a bad thing out of paying American workers good wages and benefits.
Diane Francis | Posted 08.29.2009 | World
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.
Mark Weisbrot | Posted 08.24.2009 | Business
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.
Hale "Bonddad" Stewart | Posted 08.13.2009 | Business
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.
Mike Lux | Posted 08.08.2009 | Politics
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.
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.
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...
Jim Wallis | Posted 07.27.2009 | Green
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.
treehugger.com | Posted 07.10.2009 | Green
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...
Michael J. Panzner | Posted 07.04.2009 | Business
While the nation's growth strategy and comparative advantages may eventually prove the optimists correct, right now, at least, the China recovery story seems to have lots of holes in it.
Sen. Fritz Hollings | Posted 07.04.2009 | Politics
President Obama and the Congress must enforce "Buy American" and our other trade laws if we are to save the economy. We are in a desperate circumstance.
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...
Sen. Fritz Hollings | Posted 06.29.2009 | Politics
We're bailing out the economy boat desperately with stimulation, but the financial leadership opposes plugging the hole in the hull from offshoring.
Bloomberg | Posted 06.21.2009 | Politics
U.S. officials said they will delay seeking congressional approval for a pending free-trade deal with Panama until President Barack Obama offers a new...
Robert Creamer | Posted 05.21.2009 | Politics
Obama's recent trips to the G-20 and the Summit of the Americas have underscored his fundamental realignment of American foreign policy.
Jake Colvin | Posted 05.15.2009 | Business
The current economic climate presents a real danger to international stability and, ultimately, to U.S. national security. The time is right for a renewed commitment to trade.
Scott Lilly | Posted 05.02.2009 | Politics
Read the entire report at AmericanProgress.org. The current economic relationship between the United States and China is perilous for both countries....
Craig "Meathead" Goldwyn | Posted 04.23.2009 | World
Roquefort is an odd target since the Euro ban is on all US beef. The wonderful blue veined sheep cheese comes only from the area around the small town of Roquefort-sur-Soulzon.
Dave Johnson | Posted 09.18.2009 | Business