Editor’s Note: Fox News features CPA Member, Xenex Disinfection Services CEO Morris Miller on using UV light to destroy coronavirus. Their UV LightStrike robot is a key component to reopening the economy. [April 29, 2020 | Fox News]
Editor’s note: Frank Dowd IV, the Chairman of CPA member Charlotte Pipe & Foundry, makes a compelling case for decoupling from China. The coronavirus has upended our world. In addition to the suffering and death, the U.S. will be left with millions of unemployed, billions in health-care costs and trillions in lost economic activity and…
Editors Note: Michael Stumo is CEO of the Coalition for a Prosperous America, a national organization based in Washington, D.C. Follow him at @michael_stumo. He wrote this commentary exclusively for the News Tribune. The coronavirus pandemic has revealed that globalized supply chains cause more risk than Wall Street has led us to believe. As a recent Senate…
Excerpt: The good news is that the United States doesn’t need to depend on China for its renewable energy supply chains. Instead, America should start matching China’s industrial strategy. And that means tapping our domestic mineral resources. It’s time to mine rare earth metals at home [Michael Stumo | March 8, 2020 | Dallas Morning News]…
Editors note: Zach Mottl is a member of the CPA board. Over the past two decades, Illinois has lost roughly 280,000 manufacturing jobs. And as those good-paying jobs have departed, so too have many longtime residents. Illinois has now lost population for five consecutive years, with 45,000 residents leaving in the last year alone. [Zach…
General Motors had a very good year in 2018. Op-ed by Jeff Ferry, Chief Economist of CPA, originally appeared in the Daily Mail West Virginia on Juanuary 4, 2019 You read that right, a good year. Maybe even an excellent year. The company’s third-quarter earnings knocked it out of the park. Wall Street was expecting…
Editor’s note: This article is posted because the UK’s trade deficit in goods was one reason voters approved Brexit last year. It parallels the trade deficit harm caused in the US. Excerpt: “One priority is a sustained effort to promote manufacturing, which provides well-paid jobs and is especially important in the Midlands, the north of England and Northern Ireland.…
In response to years of China’s predatory economic behavior, President Donald Trump’s administration recently imposed tariffs on $50 billion worth of high-tech Chinese goods. Beijing has now retaliated against America’s agricultural sector, prompting a $12 billion program from the U.S. Department of Agriculture for affected farmers and ranchers. Some in Washington are criticizing the USDA…
by Michael Stumo, CEO of CPA I was asked, after the US Trade Representative announced tariffs on another $200 billion of Chinese goods, whether I would admit that we are now in a trade war. Members of the CPA board asked me to share my response more widely. Here it is. —- Dear Bob: China…
By Jeff Ferry, CPA Research Director Sometimes the victories come so thick and fast, you have to sit down, take a deep breath, and count them. And sometimes your victories come wrapped in so many layers of pious self-justifying twaddle that you don’t even recognize them. In the past few weeks, those of us who…
