U.S. consumers who haven’t been buying American products and have been getting their Scotch whiskey, cheese, wine, coffee, olives, and cashmere sweaters from Europe will pay more for the privilege of supporting foreign producers who pay no taxes to America. The Trump administration, on October 18, imposed 25 percent tariffs on several European imports following … Read More
Economist Peter Morici explaining why the U.S. is winning the trade war and why China is losing…yes, finally an economist that has put pulled his head out of the economic textbook (which is full of theories of how free trade is best) and put it in the real world to see what is actually happening! … Read More
Anyone doubting that tariffs work for the benefit of the U.S. needs to read this article. This should remove all doubt. Read the article
A Chinese national who worked for Monsanto before it was purchased by Bayer AG was charged in St. Louis, Missouri, on Thursday with stealing trade secrets for China, the U.S. Justice Department said. Read the article
China plans to add new coal power plants equivalent to all of the EU’s current generating capacity, putting the world’s biggest emitter out of sync with its commitments to combat climate change, researchers said Wednesday. China built enough new plants between January 2018 and June 2019 — nearly 43 gigawatts worth of capacity — to … Read More
Jack Ma: “For so many years China and the U.S. have been working together. There’s a problem. That’s very natural. If there’s no problem, that’s not natural.” Watch the video
And here you have the logic of free traders: “The goal of manufacturing is not to create jobs, it is to create things that people value. In an ideal world, all that value would be created without anyone having to lift a finger.” Read the article
Tell the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to strengthen enforcement of “Made in USA.” Although the FTC can sometimes identify the cheats, not enough is being done to enforce the rules beyond issuing polite requests to stop. Companies that cheat don’t have to pay a dime or even admit wrongdoing! Made in USA should mean just … Read More
In his new book UNCONSTITUTIONAL, Roger Simmermaker explains how free trade policies were not only contrary to what our Founding Fathers had in mind but also why they are hurting our economy today. He clearly and strongly points out the utter fallacy and failure of “Free Trade”. He boldly makes a case for returning to … Read More
In his book, Unconstitutional, Roger Simmermaker advocates a brand of economic protectionism that dates back to the American forefathers. Showing unequivocally that many of America’s past Presidents and policymakers rejected the notion of free trade, in favor of beneficial trade, Mr. Simmermaker suggests that trade should happen when it does not hurt labor and environmental … Read More
