By Steven L. Byers, PhD, CPA Senior Economist The US international trade deficit in goods and services for April 2019 declined slightly to $50.8 billion,

Editor’s note: China will increasingly be carved out of global supply chains.  Apple, already grappling with lacklustre response to its latest iPhone line-up, can ill-afford

Legislation would block unaudited and state-influenced foreign companies from US capital markets Washington. The Coalition for a Prosperous America (CPA) today endorsed the introduction of the

Editors note: Senator Elizabeth Warren’s economic patriotism plan creates a split with Democrats still dedicated to cosmopolitan globalism. In some ways it is closer to

Excerpt: U.S. products became globally competitive, and the U.S. trade deficit shrank. In 1988, Congress passed a law requiring the Treasury Department to issue twice-yearly reports

Excerpt: “In President Xi’s mind, China is riding the great arch of history to a place where it makes the rules, and supplicants like the

Editors note: This is Senator Elizabeth Warren‘s “economic patriotism” platform in her own words. It shows that many of the ideas on exchange rates, globalization

Editors note: Elizabeth Warren proposes a Democratic response to the Trump MAGA agenda, incorporating some of it. Economic patriotism in trade and industrial policy are key messaging

Editors note: Twitter is helping the Chinese government with repression. Twitter has suspended a large number of Chinese-language user accounts, including those belonging to critics