Donald Trump has a reputation for doing as president what he said he’d do when he was a candidate, but there’s one promise he has conspicuously dropped. [Evelyn Cheng| February 15, 2017 |CNBC] Trump during the campaign called China “the single greatest currency manipulator that’s ever been on this planet,” and said he would make labeling China a…
Emboldened by Trump’s pledge to “buy American,” cattle ranchers across the country are trying to re-stoke the fires around country-of-origin labeling, lobbying for state legislation to take the place of defeated federal rules, reports Brent Griffiths for Pro Agriculture. The latest legislative effort is South Dakota Senate Bill 135 , a measure supported by the state’s Stockgrowers…
Sometimes the victories come so thick and fast, you have to sit down, take a deep breath, and count them. by Jeff Ferry, appears on The Hill And sometimes your victories come wrapped in so many layers of pious self-justifying twaddle that you don’t even recognize them. In the past few weeks, those of us who believe…
The 2016 election was a referendum on the imbalanced global trading system. It lost. President Donald Trump’s victory and Bernie Sanders’ insurgency both drew urgency and energy from the millions of livelihoods our trade deficits have cost. [Howard Richman, Raymond Richman, and Jesse Richman| February 10, 2017 |American Thinker] The vast U.S. trade deficit siphons…