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Globalization Follies Our Globalization Bulletins are collection of undeservedly obscure facts and figures, brought to you by the U.S. Business and Industry Council. For more in-depth opinions from our regular columnists and special guest writers, be sure to check out our Opinion Archive. May 2008 Washington Post Reporter Ignores Trade Policy Negatives in U.S. Wage Decline Alan Tonelson April 2008 Republicans Applaud Foreign Leadership on U.S. Trade Policy Alan Tonelson Democratic Leaders Must Get Serious about Trade Policy Alan Tonelson March 2008 McCain's NAFTA Remarks Flunk National Security Test Alan Tonelson February 2008 The Return of Syntax Politics: Hillary Clinton's Outlandish NAFTA Claim Debases Democratic Trade "Debate" Alan Tonelson December 2007 Is it Possible: More Incompetence in U.S. Trade Policy? Alan Tonelson November 2007 U.S. Trade Policy: Turning Foreign Terrorists into Capitalists -- or Middle Class Americans into Socialists? Alan Tonelson The Indignity of American Kowtowing: How Low Can Treasury Sec. Paulson Go? Alan Tonelson October 2007 Blunt's Case for Colombia Trade Agreement Ignores U.S. Strengths Alan Tonelson Is U.S. Trade Policy Washington Post-centric? Alan Tonelson September 2007 U.S. Chamber of Commerce Laments American Democracy at Work Alan Tonelson August 2007 Washington Post's Broder Vanquishes Trade Critics -- At Least In His Own Mind Alan Tonelson US Patent "Reform" Actually Helps Patent Infringers from India Alan Tonelson July 2007 Trade Fantasies -- Courtesy of the National Association of Manufacturers Alan Tonelson Washington Post's Top Political Columnist Regurgitates Globalization Cheerleaders' Mindless Cliches Alan Tonelson "Good News:" America's Net Debt Soars! Alan Tonelson June 2007 Club for Growth Gets History As Well As Economics Backwards Alan Tonelson May 2007 Treasury Secretary Paulson: Just Who Is He Working For, Anyway? Alan Tonelson Defending Carla Hills's Honor Alan Tonelson April 2007 Q -- When Is an Economic Bubble Not a Bubble? A -- When Globalization Cheerleaders Wax Rhapsodic About Free Trade. Alan Tonelson March 2007 American Quality: A Pit Stop in the Race to the Bottom? Alan Tonelson February 2007 Truth Deficit Rises Sharply at USTR Alan Tonelson Improve the Trade Policy Debate: Exclude Gene Sperling Alan Tonelson January 2007 The Only Reason that Rangel Really Needs Alan Tonelson Wall Street Journal to Oppose Renewal of "Fast Track" Trade Negotiating Authority Alan Tonelson December 2006 Treasury Secretary Paulson Invents Alternating Spin Cycle in Advance of China Visit Alan Tonelson November 2006 Common Sense Bashing at the Wall Street Journal Alan Tonelson U.S. Automakers Apparently to Blame for China Trade Deficit Alan Tonelson Non-tariff Barriers: The Wall Street Journal's Recipe for Manufacturing Success Alan Tonelson October 2006 Stunning Revelation: After Years in Denial, USTR Officials Admit Free Trade Deals Don't Necessarily Benefit U.S. Alan Tonelson September 2006 The Chinese Trade Surplus Expansion Act - courtesy of Ways and Means Chair Thomas Alan Tonelson August 2006 Laffer Throws Curve with Latest Theory Alan Tonelson "Interpreter-gate:" The Emergency in America's Emergency Rooms Alan Tonelson July 2006 FT Phone Home? Alan Tonelson June 2006 Meet the New Treasury Boss -- Same as the Old Treasury Boss Alan Tonelson You Can't Tell the Politicos Without a Scorecard Alan Tonelson May 2006 Bush - Paulson Disconnect on Exports vs. Imports Alan Tonelson Treasury Department Wimps Out on Foreign Takeovers Alan Tonelson Cynical Alarmism on Trade from the Council on Foreign Relations Alan Tonelson "Procter & Dissemble" Alan Tonelson April 2006 New Low in Panda Hugging by Boeing Alan Tonelson Washington Post Pundit Oblivious to Economic Impact of Immigration on America's Working Poor Alan Tonelson How the Cheap Labor Lobby Is Duping the Left Into Doing Its Work For Free Alan Tonelson March 2006 For Post Reporter No Window into Microsoft's Motives Alan Tonelson The National Association of Manufacturers Is Spinning the News on the High-Tech Trade Deficit So Fast It's Getting Dizzy Alan Tonelson Totally at Sea on Port Security Alan Tonelson February 2006 "Trust Me" Journalism from The Wall Street Journal Alan Tonelson NY Times Reporter Aces Trade Cliches 101 Alan Tonelson It Takes Two to Globalize Successfully Alan Tonelson January 2006 Treasury Secretary Snow Buys Brooklyn Bridge From Chinese! (Again!) Alan Tonelson The Wall Street Journal: Dishonest Cheerleading (Again) Alan Tonelson December 2005 "Freer Trade," but not Free Speech, at Foreign Affairs Alan Tonelson November 2005 "Easing" Our Way to the Bottom Alan Tonelson Consumer Profligacy Fails as Subject of Trade Deficit Morality Play Alan Tonelson Free Trade Deals Don't Necessarily Build Democracy Alan Tonelson Bush Unravels China Currency Mystery Alan Tonelson October 2005 The Latest in US Trade Policy: Blaming the Victim Alan Tonelson The Revolving Door Spins Toward Korea Alan Tonelson Even Economists Can Learn Alan Tonelson Sen. Max Baucus: Phony Champion of U.S. Trade Laws Alan Tonelson NAM Board Elects New Chairman/Outsourcer-in-Chief Alan Tonelson NAM Board Elects New Chairman/Outsourcer-in-Chief Alan Tonelson September 2005 A Double Standard on the Twin Deficits from Alan Greenspan Alan Tonelson No Way to Treat Geniuses Alan Tonelson Field-of-Dreams Economics Alan Tonelson Trade Misfires as the Anti-Drug Weapon Alan Tonelson July 2005 A China Bill As Phony As Its Sponsor Alan Tonelson CAFTA: Can Plutocracy at Home Produce Democracy Abroad? Alan Tonelson CAFTA Is the CHINESE Way Alan Tonelson Free Trade, Third World Style Alan Tonelson CAFTA : Profiles in Integrity Alan Tonelson June 2005 USTR Portman's Labor Rights Gimmickry Alan Tonelson Don't Play It Again, Gary Alan Tonelson May 2005 CAFTA: Where's the Beef? Alan Tonelson High-Tech's Phony Labor Shortage Alan Tonelson Don't Worry, We'll Always Have Services Alan Tonelson April 2005 Experts For a Day Alan Tonelson Big Media Editorial Writers Quick to Blame America First on Trade Alan Tonelson The CAFTA Cure-All Alan Tonelson March 2005 Honey, I'm Clueless on the Trade Deficit Alan Tonelson February 2005 Bush to Greenspan: Start Buying America Alan Tonelson January 2005 Commerce Secretary Don Evans: His Last Quack Alan Tonelson Forbes: Let's Kill All the Jobs Alan Tonelson December 2004 The Wall Street Journal Tells A Fish Story on Vietnamese Shrimp Dumping Alan Tonelson Which Is the Hi-Tech Superpower? Alan Tonelson November 2004 The New Economy: Just Another Name for Big Government? Alan Tonelson China to U.S. on Currency Revaluation: Drop Dead (cont'd) Alan Tonelson CAFTA: The Expanding Trade Deficit with China by Another Name? Alan Tonelson October 2004 Why Consumer Spending Won't Boost the U.S. Economy or Put Americans Back to Work Alan Tonelson Kerry/Edwards: Paper Tigers on Outsourcing? Alan Tonelson Once an Expert.... Alan Tonelson September 2004 Intellectual Property Theft in China: Who Are the Multinationals Kidding? Alan Tonelson The Ignoramuses Strike Back Alan Tonelson August 2004 The Phony Skills Shortage Continues Alan Tonelson Clinton and Globalization: The Deceit Goes On Alan Tonelson July 2004 Bush Administration: Lacking the Courage of their CAFTA Convictions Alan Tonelson Washington Post Article on Dumping Fit for the Dumpster Alan Tonelson National Association of Manufacturers: Manufacturing Misinformation Alan Tonelson June 2004 Trade Deficits As Far As the Eye Can See: Don't Just Take Our Follies Word for It Alan Tonelson Danforth's Cheap Shot on Free Trade the Only Sour Note at Reagan Funeral Alan Tonelson Ivory Tower Populists Alan Tonelson May 2004 Patriotism, Aerospace Industry-Style Alan Tonelson Free Trade Math: One Minus One Equals Three Alan Tonelson Microsoft Backs the Low Road to Competitiveness Alan Tonelson Kerry on Globalization: Who to Believe, Flip or Flop? Alan Tonelson April 2004 Mega-Punditry: Never Having to Say You're Wrong or You're Sorry Alan Tonelson Doubting Thomas (Bill that is) Alan Tonelson Wall Street Cred??? Alan Tonelson The New York Times: Unfair, Unbalanced, and Proud of It Alan Tonelson Outsourcing 101 Flunked by Major Media Reporters Alan Tonelson March 2004 Head-in-the-Sand Globalizers Alan Tonelson Off-shoring Common Sense Alan Tonelson February 2004 A Big Miss by Fortune Magazine Alan Tonelson Why Not a Jobless Economy? Alan Tonelson Outsourcing, Trade: What's in a Name? Alan Tonelson January 2004 Has Bush Seen the Light on Trade Policy? Alan Tonelson Pundits Know Best? Alan Tonelson Reich's Jobs Con Job Alan Tonelson The Soft Bigotry of Globalization Alan Tonelson December 2003 Bush Administration to Africa: Solve Your Economic Problems Yourself Alan Tonelson Wen Corrects the Record on the US-China Trade Deficit Alan Tonelson Globalized "R" Us Alan Tonelson November 2003 The Silk Stocking District on Globalization Alan Tonelson Robert Zoellick's Mad, Mad, Mad World Alan Tonelson Steel Dumpers Bite the Hand that Feeds Them Alan Tonelson New Republic Blames America First (Again) Alan Tonelson October 2003 Don't Worry, Be Happy -- About the Loss of U.S. Manufacturing Jobs Alan Tonelson Are the Corporate Democrats Finally Wising Up On Trade? Alan Tonelson Globalization Cheerleaders Low-Ball Its Negative Results Alan Tonelson National Association of Manufacturers (sic) shows True Colors on China Alan Tonelson Why Reporters Shouldn't Be Forecasters Alan Tonelson September 2003 Outsource the President's Council of Economic Advisors Alan Tonelson Bush's Manufacturing Plan: The Road to Nowhere Alan Tonelson August 2003 Preemptive Surrender on China Trade? Alan Tonelson Treasury Secretary Gives New Meaning to the Term 'Snow Job' Alan Tonelson Global Economy -- What Global Economy? Alan Tonelson Chile: America's Exciting New Free Trade Market Alan Tonelson Guess Who's the Fright Purveyor-in-Chief? Alan Tonelson July 2003 Greenspan's Indifference to US Manufacturing Crisis Alan Tonelson Has Jayson Blair Moved Over to the Times Editorial Page? Alan Tonelson The Defense Department Gang that Couldn't Shoot Straight on Buying American Alan Tonelson The Temp Job Presidency Alan Tonelson June 2003 China to United States: Drop Dead Alan Tonelson Stimulating Imports, Not Growth Alan Tonelson Client-itis in Korea Alan Tonelson May 2003 It's Only Money -- Even After 9/11 Alan Tonelson The Two Faces of Intel Alan Tonelson New Democrat or New Demagogue? Alan Tonelson Success, Zoellick-Style Alan Tonelson April 2003 Is a New Third World Financial Crisis on the Horizon? Alan Tonelson Meanwhile, Back on Planet Kinsley... Alan Tonelson GE - We Bring Deflation to Life Alan Tonelson Globalization's First Bimbo? Alan Tonelson Muddle East Alan Tonelson March 2003 Euro Trade Officials Sucker the NY Times Alan Tonelson Distant Neighbors: U.S. and Canada Alan Tonelson EU Blames the Victim of its Trade Policies Alan Tonelson Time to Talk Turkey on Trade Alan Tonelson February 2003 Faith-Based Globalization Alan Tonelson January 2003 Clinton Still Clueless on Globalization Alan Tonelson The African Explorer Alan Tonelson December 2002 Bush Administration Mis-firings? Alan Tonelson November 2002 Dock Lockout and Defense Dependency Alan Tonelson October 2002 The Fruits of Globalization, According to Intel Alan Tonelson A Retailer with a Difference Alan Tonelson American Companies??? Alan Tonelson The Latest Turkey from the New Republic Alan Tonelson September 2002 Bigger Than A Breadbox? Alan Tonelson Another Free Trade Agreement We Don't Need Alan Tonelson A Lesson in Hypocrisy, Not Free Trade Alan Tonelson FTAA: The Free Lunch Agreement of the Americas Alan Tonelson August 2002 Populism That Only the Business Roundtable Could Love Alan Tonelson No 'Decent Interval' in Andean Trade Alan Tonelson More "Hush-Up Journalism" From the Journal Alan Tonelson July 2002 The Muddled Minds Behind Free Trade Alan Tonelson Globalization Schizos Alan Tonelson False Hopes Offered to Latin Debtor Nations Alan Tonelson Yergin-Nonsense, Not Yergin-omics Alan Tonelson June 2002 The Biggest Bull Alan Tonelson News That's Not: Business Weak Alan Tonelson NAM-skulls Alan Tonelson Three Cheers for NAFTA? Alan Tonelson May 2002 Democracy, Zoellick-Style Alan Tonelson A Long Time Ago in a Galaxy Far Away? Actually, No. Alan Tonelson A Promise or a Threat from the U.S. Chamber Alan Tonelson April 2002 Power Politics Begins -- and Ends -- at Home Alan Tonelson American Workers and Businesses Forgotten in the Andean Trade Bill Alan Tonelson What the New York Times Doesn't Want to Know Alan Tonelson 'New Democrats' Press Assault on America's Working Poor Alan Tonelson Wall Street Journal Lays an Egg on Trade Coverage Alan Tonelson March 2002 Grassley's New Math Alan Tonelson Lugar's Folly Alan Tonelson February 2002 The Littlest Superpower Alan Tonelson Trade Bull from the Bull Alan Tonelson Economic Report of the President: A Nation of Losers? Alan Tonelson January 2002 This Time We're Really, REALLY Angry Alan Tonelson This is Protectionism? Alan Tonelson Time for a New US Ambassador to Pakistan Alan Tonelson 'Global' Corporation Runs to US Government for Help Alan Tonelson Trade Rep. Zoellick's Blurry Vision Alan Tonelson December 2001 America's Most Backward Industry Alan Tonelson Clarifying the Need for ... Campaign Finance Reform Alan Tonelson ARMEY-NOMICS II Alan Tonelson Spinning Out of Control on Fast Track Alan Tonelson ARMEY-NOMICS Alan Tonelson November 2001 An Age of Miracles? Alan Tonelson Bob Zoellick - Trade Statesman or Easy Mark? Alan Tonelson USTR Zoellick Reveals Grand Strategy at Doha Alan Tonelson Rep. Thomas: Free Trade is Great for Everyone Except My Constituents Alan Tonelson Does Free Trade Really Encourage Freedom? Alan Tonelson October 2001 The Truth About Workers Displaced by Trade Alan Tonelson Trade Journalism: the Upsidedown Inverted Pyramid Alan Tonelson Rules are Rules - Except Where Trade is Involved Alan Tonelson And Just Where Will Those New U.S. Exports Go? Alan Tonelson McCarthyism at USTR Alan Tonelson September 2001 'Free & Open Societies' - Qatari Style Alan Tonelson A One-Track Mind on Fast Track Alan Tonelson Feeding the Hand that Bites Us Alan Tonelson Insurance Fraud Alan Tonelson August 2001 HEADS, Mexico Wins. TAILS, US Loses Alan Tonelson The Biggest NAFTA Myth Alan Tonelson Vietnam Trade Breakthrough Alan Tonelson At Least His Advisers are Smart - Cont'd Alan Tonelson More Fear-Mongering From the Protectionists Alan Tonelson July 2001 Fast Track to Poverty for Hispanic-Americans Alan Tonelson An 'F' for 'W' on Fast Track Alan Tonelson Bad Faith on Fast Track Alan Tonelson June 2001 Firing Your Customers! Alan Tonelson Trade, China, & Freedom? Alan Tonelson Are Some Amateurs More Equal Than Others? Alan Tonelson Class Journalism? Alan Tonelson Off The Table Alan Tonelson Fast Track, No Headlights Alan Tonelson Regular Columnists: Hawkins • Tonelson • Opinion Archive

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