President Obama is home from China and the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission today releases its 2009 report to Congress. What have we learned? That we need to pay attention because we’re getting schooled. more »
"Vandalism" screams the cover of The Economist, depicting President Obama leaving an ice pick in the tire of free trade. (No racial overtones there; after all, as the president explained, he was black before he was elected.)
George Will again travels the well-worn road of labeling every instance of supporting labor a cave-in while every instance of catering to corporations is enlightened policy-making. This time, a group of well-armed commenters counter him with the facts.
Ohio Sen. Sherrod Brown and Jeff Madrick, director of policy research at The New School’s Schwartz Center for Economic Policy Analysis, join Institute for America's Future co-director Robert Borosage in calling for President Obama to champion fairer global trade policies that safeguard American jobs at the G-20 summit in Pittsburgh. more »
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President Obama has decided to enforce our trade laws and imposed a 3-year tariff on Chinese tires. I suspect the country is about to witness a corporate hissy fit that will surely rival any righteous teabagger’s demands to see the President’s birth certificate. more »
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