Demonstrators destroy the windshield of a Baltimore Police car as they protest the death of Freddie Gray. (Photo via Jim Watson/Getty Images) After protests in Baltimore over the death of Freddie Gray turned violent on Saturday, Baltimore sports-radio broadcaster Brett Hollander took to Twitter to argue that demonstrations that negatively impact the daily lives of…
The price at which you can trade American dollars for foreign currencies may seem abstract, but events unfolding right now make it important to your future income, whether you have a job and the direction of the world economy in the next few years. [David Cay Johnston | August 18th, 2015] Around the globe, we…
A bipartisan delegation of staff for the Senate Finance Committee and its members will head to Japan, Malaysia and Vietnam next week to discuss the ongoing Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) negotiations, according to a Senate aide. [Reposted from Inside US Trade | August 18, 2015] The aide said the focus of the trip is TPP and…
On Tuesday, China announced the largest one-day devaluation of its currency in more than two decades. Make no mistake—although authorities claimed this policy was a shift toward more market-driven movements, the value of the currency is tightly controlled by China’s central bank. By choosing to devalue its currency, Chinese officials are trying to solve their…
Industries across the world are bracing for a deflationary shock as China devalues, but Beijing adamant there is no secret plan to drive down the yuan [Reposted from The Telegraph | Ambrose Evans-Pritchard | August 13, 2015] Chinese steelmakers are preparing to flood the global market with cut-price exports as they take advantage of this…
Even if the Georgetown steel mill had survived to this point, China’s surprising decision Tuesday to devalue its currency likely would have been the 46-year-old plant’s death blow. [Reposted from The Post and Courier | David Wren | August 14, 2015] And it could be a death sentence for other sites in the struggling U.S.…
China’s decision to devalue its currency last week means that it has chosen to export its unemployment problem, rather than take the hard steps needed to restructure its domestic economy. Over the past decade, trade deficits caused by currency manipulation by about 20 mostly Asian countries, predominantly China, has eliminated between 2.3 million and 5.8…
Did you ever think you’d see congressional Republicans repeal a federal law in subservience to a foreign organization? [Reposted from Forbes | John Brinkley | August 7, 2015] After the World Trade Organization ruled that a U.S. country-of-origin food labeling regulation was unfair to countries that export chickens, pigs and cows to the United States,…
China had been setting a too-low exchange rate for their currency, thereby exporting unemployment. Then early this week their bank made a move and the currency plunged. The next day another plunge, then another. [Reposted from the Campaign for America’s Future blog | Dave Johnson | August 14, 2015] China declared this was because they…
Ohio Senator Sherrod Brown has put a “hold” on the nomination of Marisa Lago to be deputy U.S. trade representative. Brown says that his trade advisor is not allowed to see text of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) unless he is present. [Reposted from the Campaign for America’s Future blog | Dave Johnson | August 17,…
