The Obama Administration continues its misguided focus on poorly negotiated trade deals, like the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), while ignoring market distorting factors that are harming U.S. economic growth. [Reposted from OpedNews | Michael Stumo| November 20, 2015] Magnetization, an iron ore producer in Minnesota, announced that it will layoff workers. Cliffs Natural Resources, another Minnesota iron ore…
Senate Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-UT) on Friday (Nov. 6) expressed doubt that Congress will take up legislation to implement the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) during the Obama administration and argued that a future Republican administration would negotiate a better deal on intellectual property protections for drugs. Inside U.S. Trade | November 23, 2015…
The Donald Trump-led Republican presidential field has attracted outsize attention for eccentricity. With less notice, it is also pointing America to a very different tax system. [ by John Harwood | November 20, 2015 | New York Times ] That’s not because specific tax proposals that various Republican candidates have advanced will become law…