By Jeff Ferry, CPA Research Director It may have been obscured by the looming State of the Union address, but there was quite a kerfuffle in Washington recently. Clinton-era Treasury Secretary Larry Summers went semi-ballistic over comments made by his successor, Steven Mnunchin. During the recent World Economic Forum in Davos, Treasury Secretary Mnuchin made…
Canada is “willing to walk away from NAFTA if the United States offers a bad deal,” Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said on Friday. [February 2, 2018 | Inside US Trade] At a town hall meeting in British Columbia, Trudeau was asked about the state of the NAFTA talks and reiterated that Canada was “not going to take…
China and Russia are developing anti-satellite missiles and other weapons and will soon be capable of damaging or destroying all U.S. satellites in low-earth orbit, according to the Pentagon’s Joint Staff. [Bill Gertz | January 30th, 2018 | Free Beacon] The Joint Staff intelligence directorate, known as J-2, issued the warning in a recent report…
In her latest book chronicling the state of U.S. manufacturing and the policy changes needed to shore up the sector, Michele Nash-Hoff, a contributor to IndustryWeek, notes that one of her ancestors was Paul Revere. While Nash-Hoff has not been galloping through the Massachusetts countryside warning of British troops, she has been crisscrossing the United States in…
