[Alex Buggae| November 22, 2016 |Yahoo] LISBON (Reuters) – The incoming head of the United Nations warned on Tuesday that “losers of globalization” in rich countries have felt ignored by establishment politicians, prompting them to turn to nationalist agendas, as in the U.S. election and Brexit referendum. Antonio Guterres, elected in October to take over…
“CPA applauds President-elect Trump for keeping his campaign promise to withdraw from the TPP,” Stumo said on Nov. 22. “The TPP could not be fixed, so tweaking it was not a realistic option. If there was a mandate in this wave election, it was that the previously forgotten working class rightly rejected the globalist tendencies…
[John Hayward| November 16, 2016 |Breitbart] Economist Alan Tonelson, founder of the economics and public policy blog RealityChek, joined SiriusXM host Alex Marlow on Wednesday’s Breitbart News Daily to talk about Donald Trump’s vision for the economy. Tonelson said it was “painfully clear” that “tens of millions of American voters were reacting to not only the version of…
By Michael Stumo I was in Washington last week discussing future trade policy with both GOP and Dem offices. What struck me is the focus on process in trade deals and a discomfort with performance based goals. Let’s say we renegotiate NAFTA. What should we do? Many congressional offices that want trade reform have a…
By Michael Stumo President-elect Trump said, in a video yesterday, that the first action he will take as President is to withdraw from the Trans-Pacific Partnership. Thank goodness. But then he said, “Instead, we will negotiate fair, bilateral trade agreements that bring jobs and industries back onto American shores.” Trump should re-examine whether there is…