GOP frontrunner Donald Trump held an afternoon campaign rally in Concord, North Carolina on Monday at the Cabarrus Arena and Events Center, touting his recent endorsement from NASCAR and vowing to bring jobs back to the United States. [Alex Swoyer| March 7, 2016 |Breitbart] “NASCAR endorsed Trump, can you believe that?” the real estate mogul…
The government of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on March 8 sent the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) agreement and a related bill to the Japanese Diet and expects to get approval before the Diet wraps up its session at the end of June, although it is hoping for action as early as late April, according to the…
In 2015, Ted Cruz was on with Jeff Kuhner and answered some tough questions about why he supports the TPP.One of the questions was specifically about what Jeff Sessions has been saying about the trade deal and Cruz blatantly said that what Sessions has been saying is not accurate. In short, he said that the…
On Thursday, Governor Mitt Romney gave an anti-Trump speech in which he called upon Republicans to vote for anybody but frontrunner Donald Trump so as to produce a brokered convention. Romney claimed that Trump’s economic plans would cause a recession. He said: [Howard Richard and Raymond Richard| March 8, 2016 | American Thinker] If we Republicans choose Donald Trump as…
Americans opposition to job-killing trade policies fueled the stunning Sanders upset victory in Michigan. But it also could be a deciding factor in the general election, especially with Donald Trump being the likely GOP nominee. The Michigan outcome shows the potency of the trade issues and foreshadows the trouble Hillary Clinton could face in Midwestern…
No Democratic presidential candidate had campaigned in Traverse City, Mich., in decades until Senator Bernie Sanders pulled up to the concert hall near the Sears store on Friday. Some 2,000 people mobbed him when he arrived, roaring in approval as he called the country’s trade policies, andHillary Clinton’s support for them, “disastrous.” [Patrick Healy & Yamiche Alcindor|…
Once in awhile you read a book that has such kernels of truth that they touch your soul. One such book is The Heart & Soul of Manufacturing by Bill Waddell that I just finished reading. The subtitle reveals the focus of his book: “How Lean Management aligns with the better angels of our nature…
HARTFORD — U.S. Sen. Chris Murphy criticized the Department of Defense on Friday after a second Pentagon report found that purchasing practices failed to comply with federal law intended to promote U.S. manufacturing. [Stephen Singer| March 4, 2016 |The Hartford Courant] The Defense Department’s inspector general reported last week that it found only partial compliance…
Failed 2012 presidential candidate Mitt Romney has been claiming that Donald Trump’s (and by logical implication, Bernie Sanders’) proposed rejection of free trade would start a trade war and tip America into recession. [Ian Fletcher| March 8, 2016 |Huffington Post] Failed 2012 presidential candidate Mitt Romney has been claiming that Donald Trump’s (and by…
Democratic presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders on Thursday went after rival Hillary Clinton‘s record on trade, highlighting their “very different points of view.” [Vicki Needham| March 3, 2016 |The Hill] The Vermont senator blasted Clinton’s record of supporting the North American Free Trade Agreement, establishing trade relations with China and the changing of her stance on the Trans-Pacific Partnership…