FBI Director Christopher Wray on Tuesday reiterated a commonly held view among US intelligence officials that China is seeking to become a global superpower through unconventional means — but he framed it as both a governmental and a societal threat to the US. [Michal Kranz | February 13, 2018 | Business Insider] Speaking before the…
Former boxer and machining revolutionary, Titan Gilroy, has an aggressive strategy to combat all the threats to American manufacturing, from outsourcing to the skills gap. (American Machinist — John Hitch: 2-6-18) The list of obstacles standing in the way of an American manufacturing comeback seems to grow every day. We have the skills gap,…
Washington ~ The Coalition for a Prosperous America (CPA) applauded a Commerce Department decision today finding that companies in China are dumping cast iron soil pipe fittings in the US market. The Department stated, in its fact sheet: Commerce calculated a preliminary dumping rate of 68.37 percent for mandatory respondent Shanxi Xuanshi Industrial Group Co.,…
By Jeff Ferry, CPA Research Director Business Roundtable (BR) and others have published economic forecasts that purport to show that the US withdrawing from or substantially modifying NAFTA would lead to US losses in GDP and jobs. We analyze the BR study and show that it is essentially a biased or “rigged” economic model, overlooking…
