Why the trade deficit is getting bigger

Editors Note: This is an important WaPo article on the overvalued, noncompetitive dollar. The tone of the article is too negative regarding tariffs because the tariff intervention is positive for the economy. CPA members Greg Owens of Liberty Tabletop and Todd Diggs of Charlotte Pipe & Foundry are quoted and both support the tariffs (which…

Press Release: Steel Tariffs Creating Jobs, Boosting GDP

CPA’s updated economic model finds more than 2 million jobs created   Washington. Despite pessimistic predictions from many economists, the administration’s steel tariffs are creating US jobs and stimulating growth, according to a new economic model produced by the Coalition for a Prosperous America (CPA). CPA’s economic team found that the steel tariffs, in combination…

Trump’s China Tariffs Are Working and Their Impact Should Not Be Blunted by Potential Loopholes

In response to Beijing’s longstanding commercial espionage practices, President Donald Trump embarked on a series of tariffs against China earlier this year. Op-ed by Michael Stumo, CEO of CPA, originally appeared in LifeZette on November 20, 2018 Free-trade economists and media pundits offered dire warnings when the tariffs were announced. But as recent data have…

The ‘Madman’ Behind Trump’s Trade Theory

Editors note: the establishment tries even harder to tear down Peter Navarro even as he has proven right. The economics establishment is in disarray trying to reclaim legitimacy. No one’s more careful about what they buy,” Peter Navarro told me recently. The director of the Office of Trade and Manufacturing Policy was explaining that he reads…