CPA Releases New Economic Report on Re-Shoring the U.S. Bike and E-Bike Industry

WASHINGTON — The Coalition for a Prosperous America (CPA) today released a new economic report outlining a comprehensive plan to re-shore the U.S. bike and e-bike industry, which would create thousands of new U.S. manufacturing jobs, reduce U.S. dependence on China, and generate economic growth in an industry that is increasingly using advanced technology. The…

CPA Letter to Secretary Yellen and Chairman Powell on Implementing a Market Access Charge

CPA sent the following letter to Secretary of the Treasury Janet Yellen and Chairman of the Federal Reserve Jerome Powell regarding implementing a new monetary policy tool called a Market Access Charge (MAC) to complement the Fed Funds Rate (FFR). The MAC would make it possible to moderate excessive flows of money into the U.S.…

Biden’s Commerce Department Sides with Chinese Solar Manufacturers Circumventing U.S. Tariffs

WASHINGTON — The Coalition for a Prosperous America (CPA) released a statement after the Department of Commerce sided with Chinese solar manufacturers after rejecting a request from U.S. domestic solar manufacturers to investigate illegal and unfair circumvention of trade remedies on Chinese solar cells and modules. The American Solar Manufacturers Against Chinese Circumvention (“A-SMACC”) filed…

Can the MAC Make the Federal Funds Rate More Effective?

Background When inflation threatens America’s stability and economic growth, the Fed raises the Federal Funds Rate (FFR). This reduces domestic demand for borrowed funds, and that reduces the growth of domestic money in circulation and thus the rate of inflation. This approach worked reasonably well from the 1930s when the FFR became an official policy…

CPA Letter to Secretary of Defense Austin Regarding Urgent Updates Needed to List of Chinese Companies Subject to U.S. Capital Markets Sanctions

CPA sent the following letter to U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III regarding urgent updates that are needed to the 1260H Chinese Military Companies (CMCs) List and the inclusion of all CMCs on the OFAC NS-CMIC List to limit U.S. funding of China’s People’s Liberation Army. Dear Secretary Austin: Last week, General Milley…