Over my two decades of writing about economics, I’ve devised a list of simple maxims that I’ve found generally hold true. One is that history repeats itself. If one country tumbled into a financial crisis, there is a very good chance another, facing similar conditions, will as well. A second rule: What doesn’t work, doesn’t work.…
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Tinkering with Interest Rates Will Not Make America’s Economy Great Again! By John R. Hansen, CPA Advisory Board In his New York Times article on January 9 (As Economy Strengthens, Fed Ponders New Approach), Mr. Appelbaum notes the rising dissatisfaction both outside and inside the Federal Reserve with America’s current monetary policy. For example, at the…
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Washington ~ The Coalition for a Prosperous America (CPA) applauds the Trump Administration’s decision yesterday to impose safeguard tariffs on imports of solar panels and clothes washers. “America invented solar cell technology,” said Michael Stumo, CEO of CPA. “But China stole that technology and has massively subsidized solar production for the purpose of dominating the…
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By Jeff Ferry, CPA Research Director Later this month, President Trump faces one of the biggest trade decisions of his presidency. By Jan. 26th, the president must decide whether to levy duties on solar cell and module imports, and what level those duties should be. The International Trade Commission (ITC) found in September that the…
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Most Americans understand what few in Washington seem to grasp — that the global economy is rigged against us. We open our market to countries and companies that game our trade laws and then fail to punish their bad behavior. That cheating is a big reason many Americans are so desperate for President Donald J.…
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The U.S. decision to support the terms of China’s accession to the World Trade Organization more than 20 years ago was a mistake, the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative says in its annual report on China’s compliance with its WTO commitments. [Jack Caporal | January 18. 2018 | Inside US Trade] The report blasts China…
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The battle over Solar Panel tariffs has heated up significantly since my Forbes piece of January 4th. In that post, I urged the Administration to consider the outrageous theft of American funded R&D when deciding what action to take in response to a unanimous finding by the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) that Chinese manufactures conspired to dump…
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Senate Majority Whip John Cornyn (R-TX) appeared as a witness before the Senate Banking Committee Thursday morning to pitch legislation to reform and expand the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States, but a panel of academics and business representatives later voiced concerns about the bill’s breadth. [Jack Caporal | January 18, 2018 |…
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Hillsboro, Ore. and Norcross, Ga.– January 18, 2018 – Suniva and SolarWorld Americas Inc. today jointly expressed their deep appreciation for President Trump’s attention to China and its proxies’ cheating and the assault on the United States’ solar manufacturing industry during his interview with Reuters: “Our companies and workers are grateful to hear the President understands the seriousness of the…
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In April 2016, Donald Trump stood in front of supporters in Pittsburgh and declared he would bring the country’s steel jobs back. On Thursday, he returns to western Pennsylvania as a president yet to deliver on that promise. [ Scott N. Paul | Jan. 17, 2018 | New York Times] While America will never again see…
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