WASHINGTON — The Coalition for a Prosperous America (CPA) today applauded Senators Chris Coons (D-DE), Marco Rubio (R-FL), Ed Markey (D-MA), Bill Hagerty (R-TN), Tim Kaine (D-VA), and Mitt Romney (R-UT) for introducing a resolution condemning the Chinese government and Communist Party’s genocide against the Uyghurs and other ethnic minorities in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous…
By John R. Hansen, CPA Advisory Board Would the MAC discourage foreign direct investment in the United States? Some readers have suggested that capital being brought into the United States to finance greenfield foreign direct investment should be exempted from the MAC. We should not, they argue, do anything to discourage productivity enhancing investment in America’s manufacturing…
By John R. Hansen, CPA Advisory Board This note describes how a Market Access Charge (MAC) can fix US dollar overvaluation, what the MAC is, and how it would put US workers and factories back on the job. Many factors have contributed to America’s declining international competitiveness, but most important has been misaligned exchange rates that are…
Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, as a candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination, seems reluctant to take a firm position on an issue dividing her party: whether President Obama should have fast-track trading authority for the immense trade deal he has been negotiating, the Trans-Pacific Partnership. With some progressive voters eyeing her with some…