On the surface, America looks like an unrivaled success story. Yet beneath the headline numbers lies an economy increasingly dependent on foreign production, hollowed out in critical industries, and unable to provide secure, high-wage work for many of its citizens.
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) is today the main source of new drugs in this country – indeed the world, because America leads in the field. It has a critical importance to America’s health. Less well known is its huge, positive, economic impact.
Mexico has been flooding the United States with underpriced steel — in clear violation of a 2019 agreement with Washington. The Biden administration did not address the problem; now, the coming Trump administration must act.
Now that we have re-elected President Trump for a second term to work on achieving his goal of Making America Great Again, it’s time to focus on how to rebuild America’s manufacturing industry because we can’t be great again without a strong domestic manufacturing industry.
The U.S. solar manufacturing industry can play an important role in the 21st century economy. But that requires a smart, coherent trade and industrial strategy to counter China.
It’s time for us to stop treating China as a friend and recognize China as the enemy to our national sovereignty that it is.
By Ken Austin[1] When I was in grad school, the dollar’s reserve currency status meant something very specific – foreign central banks bought and sold
By Bill Jones Former Senator Phil Gramm’s recent WSJ opinion article “Trump’s Trade War Was a Loser” gets many things wrong about U.S. trade policy.
Note: This version is updated with results for additional tax revenue and a retaliation scenario. Key Points CPA modeled former President Trump’s recent proposal regarding
Economic models used to forecast the impact of international trade agreements have an in-built bias to favor free trade. This has led these models to
