It is Time to Stand Up to China

China is not a market economy, much less a free-market economy. Still, the U.S. continues to treat China as a free-market economy, with the hope that it will somehow encourage them to begin playing by the same rules governing the rest of the world. But, alas, it’s not happening. Here is a short list of…

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Ag Trade Balance Drastically Worsens Despite More Trade Deals

  FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEJune 15, 2016 Contact: Paola Masman, Media Director 202-688-5145 ext 2, [email protected] Government report: agricultural trade balance worsens by 62 percent from last year despite trade agreements A new report by the US Department of Agriculture reveals that the US agricultural trade balance is drastically worsening. Agricultural exports are down and imports are up from…

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Sanders forces push trade agreement opposition at DNC platform meeting

Trade policy is emerging as a point of tension between the Bernie Sanders team and the party establishment in the drafting of the Democratic Party platform.  [Jonathan Swan| June 9, 2016 |The Hill] While Hillary Clinton came out against the Obama administration’s Trans-Pacific Partnership, an Asian trade deal that she previously championed as secretary of State, the Sanders forces…

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NAFTA and the Angry Middle-Class Voter

On a bleak February day, in plenty of time to impact the 2016 Indiana presidential primary, a flush U.S. corporation named United Technologies abruptly announced that it would be closing two Indiana manufacturing plants employing some 2,100 Americans — and shifting the plants’ operations to Mexico. [Carl M. Cannon| June 9, 2016 |Real Clear Politics]…

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