One of the world’s longest high-speed railways has started operating in China, linking the country’s prosperous eastern coast to the less-developed southwest… It cuts the travel time from Shanghai to the capital of Southwest China’s Yunnan province Kunming from 34 to 11 hours…
Trump Picks Hawkish China Critic to Lead U.S. Trade Council…
Peter Navarro will spearhead US trade and industrial policy Donald Trump’s administration. He has long been a vocal critic of China, having accused it of waging an economic war on the United States…
Trump Expected to Tap Labor Secretary Who Prefers Foreign Labor to American Workers…
President-elect Donald J. Trump is expected to name as his Labor Secretary fast food executive Andy Puzder, who stands diametrically opposed to Trump’s signature issues on trade and immigration — which won him the election…
A Lesson for George Mason Economics Chair, Boudreaux As He Attempts to School Dilbert Creator, Scott Adams…
Today Donald J. Boudreaux, who is Professor of Economics and Martha and Nelson Getchell Chair for the Study of Free Market Capitalism at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University, wrote an open letter to Dilbert creator Scott Adams. The letter was a rebuttal to Scott disagreeing with Michigan Rep Justin Amash about Trump’s trade […]
Trump’s Showdown With Manufacturer Exposes Obama’s Weakness on Outsourcing…
What Will Trump Do About The Fed, The Debt Ceiling, And Trade: His Key Economic Advisor Explains…
David Malpass, a Trump economic advisor, has been tasked with overseeing the transition for the Treasury Department and economic policy. Last month, Malpass addressed a group of economists and reporters in Washington, laying out the Trump’s economic vision ahead of his election…
The Revenge of Class and the Death of the Democratic Party…
The Democratic Party of my lifetime – the coalition of Wall St finance capital and identity-politics voters that arose during the 1980s and 90s – is dead. It has been killed, quite ironically, by the revenge of class politics – the kind once championed by the Democrats. Decades of economic misery…
Mexico and Canada Announce Willingness to Renegotiate NAFTA…
Donald Trump is not yet president, and yet within 24 hours of winning the election both Mexico (link) and Canada (link) announce they are willing to begin renegotiation’s of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)…
Trump Crowd Chants “Lock Her Up” “Lock Her Up” (Video)…
Watch Michael Moore: ‘Trump Election Is Going to be the Biggest F’ You in History’…
“Donald Trump came to the Detroit Economic Club and stood there in front of the Ford Motor executives and said: if you close these factories, as you are planning to do in Detroit, and rebuild them in Mexico, I am going to put a 35% tariff on those cars when you send them back and […]