China Humiliates Another Western Company

Mercedes-Benz, the luxury unit of Daimler AG , recently learned the price of crossing Beijing. Earlier this month the German car maker was attacked by state media after posting an anodyne Dalai Lama quote on Instagram. The company quickly and abjectly apologized to the Chinese government. It then went further, promising “no support, assistance, aid or help to…

How Facebook Can Help Rebuild US Manufacturing

By Jeff Ferry, CPA Research Director In a highly polarized nation, Facebook has accomplished the amazing achievement of getting itself intensely disliked by both right and left. The right detests it because its newsfeed has demonstrated a distinctly progressive bias, reflecting the worldview of the majority of its 25,000 youthful employees, while the left resents…

CPA Statement on 232 Report on Steel, Aluminum

Washington ~ The Coalition for a Prosperous American (CPA) applauded the Department of Commerce reports, released Friday February 17, recommending import restrictions to combat an unprecedented surge of steel and aluminum imports. The recommendations have previously been submitted to President Trump for action, but were made public today. They include tariffs on steel imports ranging…