Despite growing concerns over fallout from the Trump administration’s trade barriers, Gap Inc. on Thursday joined other retailers in reporting profit growth for the most recent three-month earnings period. Revenue at the San Francisco-based apparel chain grew 7.5 percent to $4.09 billion for the quarter that ended on June 30. Net income rose 6.6 percent […]
NAFTA Update: President Trump Notes Progress With Mexico on Bilateral Trade – Preparing Different BiLat Terms for Canada…
Earlier today U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer messaged a warm birthday greeting to Mexican Foreign Secretary Louis Videgaray during ongoing negotiations between the U.S. and Mexican trade teams. Canada is FUBAR. No-one quite knows how FUBAR Canada is, because no-one has followed the brilliant Wolverine crew closely enough to spot the strategy. At the strategic […]
Understanding Phase II of the U.S. -vs- China Trade Confrontation….
President Trump has moved into Phase II of the U.S./China confrontation. Part of that confrontation is to use the inherent weakness of the Chinese economy against them. To understand the weakness is to understand the China ‘One-Belt / ‘One-World‘ economic trade strategy. Here’s an outline of the economic battle-space we are witnessing. People often talk […]
Here Is the Full List of U.S. Products That Will Be Hit With New Chinese Tariffs…
NAFTA Development – U.S. and Mexico Plan Ministerial Session Thursday in DC…
Apparently our CTH suspicions were correct; this is interesting. Canadian Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland is scheduled to leave Canada on Tuesday for a meeting of ASEAN foreign ministers in Singapore…. Meanwhile U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer and a high-level Mexican team -consisting of both incoming AMLO and exiting Nieto delegations- will be meeting again to […]
Top U.S. Officials Say They Received No Warning of Family Separation Policy…
Top officials from key government agencies told a Senate committee Tuesday that they first learned of the Trump administration’s “zero tolerance” policy, which led to the separation of migrant children from their parents, when the Attorney General announced the policy publicly in April. Democratic Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse asked Acting Border Patrol Chief Carla Provost, U.S. […]
President Trump Confronts Multinational Big-AG, Proposes Bridge Subsidy to Break Up Controlled Markets and Exploitative Contract Farming…
There’s a lot of news this week reflecting a great deal of oppositional alignment against the presidency of Donald Trump. CTH can get down in the weeds of each specific issue to discuss the motives and intents (we will, and do), but the big picture MUST remain at the forefront of understanding. If we lose […]
Nassim Taleb Slams “These Virtue-Signaling Open-Borders Imbeciles” in 3 Short Tweets…
As liberals across America continue to attempt to one-up one another with the volume of virtue they can signal, specifically on the question of ‘open borders’ – especially since ‘jenny from the bronx’ victory over the weekend, none other than Nassim Nicholas Taleb unleashed a trite 3-tweet summary of how farcical this argument is – […]
Latin American, World Leaders React to AMLO’s Victory…
Several ex-Latin American leaders and other left-leaning politicians from around the world showed support for AMLO ahead of his victory at the polls. Several former and current heads of state and government congratulated Mexico’s Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador (AMLO) on his stunning victory in Sunday’s general elections, where preliminary results showed he would win the […]
AMLO: “We are conscious of the need to maintain good relations with the United States”…
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