Why Does USTR Want to Want Non-TPP Auto Parts to Benefit?

If the US and Japan have their way in TPP negotiations, non-TPP countries’ auto parts makers can access the US and other TPP countries’ markets with favorable tariff treatment. But those countries will not have to live up to TPP standards or concede anything in negotiations.  They will be “free riders”. Canadian, Mexican auto parts…

Press Release: “Speakers Deliver during R-CALF USA’s 16th Annual Convention”

Speakers Deliver during R-CALF USA’s 16th Annual Convention R-CALF USA’s two-day convention in Denver, Colo. was jumpstarted by Angus Mc McIntosh, Ph.D., who has served as an expert witness in nationally renowned private property rights lawsuits. McIntosh provided a detailed analysis of the process the courts have used to confirm that western ranchers have acquired…

Washington Post: “U.S. factories still haven’t recovered from the recession”

  It took less than a year for America’s factory output to rebound from the 1991 recession. It took 3½ years to bounce back from the 2001 recession. Now, six years clear of the Great Recession, manufacturing output still hasn’t returned to the pre-crisis levels it reached in 2007, according to revised economic data from the Federal…