Which Side Are You On, Hillary?

“We’ve got to stand up for unions,” Hillary Clinton declared in her closing statement during the Democratic debate in Milwaukee last month. The line offered the labor-friendly audience a comforting rebuke to Gov. Scott Walker’s relentless attacks on Wisconsin’s unions. It generated passionate applause. [Dan Kaufman| March 12, 2016 |The New York Times] But Mrs.…

Trump vows to ‘rip up’ all trade agreements

  Republican front-runner Donald Trump on Thursday said he would rip up all existing free trade agreements if he wins the White House.  [Vicki Needham| March 3, 2016 |The Hill] Trump argued that he would greatly improve U.S. relationships with nations such as Mexico and China while lowering trade deficits. “I’m going to rip up those trade…

Would Trump’s Trade Policy Really Cause a Recession?

On Thursday, Governor Mitt Romney gave an anti-Trump speech in which he called upon Republicans to vote for anybody but frontrunner Donald Trump so as to produce a brokered convention.  Romney claimed that Trump’s economic plans would cause a recession. He said: [Howard Richard and Raymond Richard| March 8, 2016 | American Thinker] If we Republicans choose Donald Trump as…

Latest trade data reinforces MI trade-rage upset

Americans opposition to job-killing trade policies fueled the stunning Sanders upset victory in Michigan. But it also could be a deciding factor in the general election, especially with Donald Trump being the likely GOP nominee. The Michigan outcome shows the potency of the trade issues and foreshadows the trouble Hillary Clinton could face in Midwestern…

Trade and Jobs Key to Victory For Bernie Sanders

No Democratic presidential candidate had campaigned in Traverse City, Mich., in decades until Senator Bernie Sanders pulled up to the concert hall near the Sears store on Friday. Some 2,000 people mobbed him when he arrived, roaring in approval as he called the country’s trade policies, andHillary Clinton’s support for them, “disastrous.” [Patrick Healy & Yamiche Alcindor|…