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The Latest From The U.S. Business And Industry Council:
New USBIC Issue Ads Call for Trade, Manufacturing Policy Overhauls
To crank up the pressure on Washington policymakers, USBIC has launched a major advertising campaign demanding fixes for America's broken trade and manufacturing policies.
by Alan Tonelson, Friday, September 18, 2009
Think that Obama's decision to impose tariffs on Chinese tires is a grave error of protectionism or a courageous act of industrial self defense? Think again. It's neither, but instead a half-hearted attempt to win additional union support for his embattled health care plan. As such, it has very little to do with trade policy or economics. It's all politics and hardly makes a dent in the administration's otherwise staunch free trade thinking, carefully guarded by the accolytes Summers, Emanuel, Romer, Tyson, Furman, Goolsby, Locke, Geithner, Kirk and a host of others.
Additional Opinion Articles
by Alan Tonelson, Tuesday, June 30, 2009
by Kevin L. Kearns, Wednesday, June 10, 2009
by Kevin L. Kearns, Wednesday, June 17, 2009
by Alan Tonelson, Tuesday, June 02, 2009
by Kevin L. Kearns and Alan Tonelson, Tuesday, June 02, 2009
Up to the Minute Commentary:
...And Another Thing!

Pundits and pandemics continued, more taxpayer- financed offshoring by GM, and sub-Saharan African fairytales.

Asian Development Bank Coddles Currency Manipulation

A major regional economist warns against pushing China too hard on the currency front. Say what?

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