The U.S. must negotiate transformative, high-standard 21st century trade agreements that leaves trade-distorting, unfair policies behind for once and for all.
What can a democracy like ours do when giant companies say, "Rules? We don't need no stinkin' rules! We don't got to pay you no taxes!" and "We will...
In the recovery from the 2008 financial crisis, South-South trade is becoming a powerful engine for economic opportunity.
Over the past three decades, global trade grew almost twice as fast as GDP. This allowed many developing countries to lift hundreds of millions of people out of poverty.
The so-called BRIC nations -- Brazil, Russia, India and China -- could be a game changer for how low-income countries build their economic futures.
China has been selling but not buying and it's time for them to to start buying. That way we might be able use the word "trade" without wincing.
It is time for us to engage in our own sovereign duty to protect American companies, workers and jobs from the trade manipulations and schemes others engage in.
Trade is supposed to be about trading. It is not supposed to just be a scheme to drive wages and living standards down by packing up factories and moving them across borders.
Some are asking: if Pakistan won't help the United States, why should American taxpayers keep giving them so much foreign aid? That question misunderstands the purpose of development assistance.
Donald Trump is getting traction. He is talking about trade, jobs, China and manufacturing -- and it's resonating with a public sick of being told to ignore what is right in front of their faces.
A huge component of our budget deficit is the result of unemployment, much of it caused by the trade deficit.
We are already making smart development investments in Pakistan in energy and agriculture, but until we make credible game-changing investments in basic education, we can expect those gains to be unsustainable in the long-term.
President Obama needs to get the country out of the Iraq, Afghanistan, and Libya wars and get into the trade war. Appointing Jeffrey Immelt is just campaigning.
Today's announcement by the Obama administration of an "Action Plan" ostensibly aimed at addressing Colombia's horrific labor rights conditions is a remarkably cynical maneuver.
Imagine a country that declares its independence from Great Britain, forges democracy from diversity, enjoys robust economic growth, and emerges as a world power. You've just described the United States -- and modern India.
In the next few weeks we will be treated to an endless parade of budget experts who will be yapping about "entitlements" and insisting that middle-income workers are living too lavishly. But while all these highly-paid experts have really impressive credentials, it is important to remember that they still overlooked the largest asset bubble in the history of the world. The deficit hawks are very good when it comes to whining about the deficit and demanding sacrifices from middle-class workers. They just aren't very good when it comes to understanding the economy.
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The good news about Washington's imperfect and somewhat indifferent foreign policy -- and the media's neglect -- for Latin America might actually serve as a compliment to the region's growing stability.
Reducing software piracy would send ripples of stimulus through the broader IT economy, thereby creating jobs, spawning new enterprises and driving growth.
The yen eased off its all-time high Friday as the world's major central banks lent their support, but Japan's economic troubles are far from over, exp...
UPDATE 8:00 AM: The yen fell against the dollar Friday, as the currency intervention announced Thursday night began, Reuters reports. Japan's central...
As you land in Rio de Janeiro with its magnificent mountains rising from the ocean, you may think you're landing in Honolulu. Next you will notice that Brazilians are truly happy.
As long as Mr. Obama focuses on CEOs in Silicon Valley to the neglect of rebuilding manufacturing in America, we won't see anything near the reduced unemployment rate that his economic team predicted in early 2009.
Secretary Locke -- our next ambassador to China if confirmed by the Senate -- will need to clean up a mess decades in the making.
Sometimes, it takes art to bring an issue alive. Sometimes, what it takes, in fact, is a play. Two weeks ago, I saw a play that was so beautiful, and ...
