Did Tariffs Make America Great?

Make America Great Again!” will, given the astonishing victory it produced for Donald Trump, be recorded among the most successful slogans in political history. [ Patrick J. Buchanan | July 27, 2018 | Buchanan Blog] Yet it raises a question: How did America first become the world’s greatest economic power? In 1998, in “The Great…

Overexposed

By Jeff Ferry, CPA Research Director Summary: This article looks at China’s heavy dependence on – or overexposure to – the US for their trade surplus and their exports. It examines different ways of counting the China trade surplus, finding that on one alternative measure it could be as much as twice as large as…