With Vicente Fox whining that Mexico “won’t pay for the f**king wall,” and Pena Nieto confirming “Mexico does not believe in walls,” President Trump just double-tweeted exactly how our southern border ‘friends’ will end up paying for the wall or else!…
It’s Who Was Not at The White House During TPP E.O. Signing That Also Tells a Story…
Yesterday President Trump held a day of meetings with corporate business titans, CEO’s, and also skilled labor union officials. However, two men were transparently absent from both group meetings: U.S. CoC President Tom Donohue, and AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka…
Trump Wins The Unions: Teamsters Praise TPP Withdrawal…
Trump Signs Executive Actions on TPP, Abortion, Federal Hiring Freeze…
President Trump signed an executive order on Monday announcing his plan to withdraw the U.S. from the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade deal. The order fulfills Trump’s campaign promise to abandon the Pacific Rim trade pact early in his administration. “We’ve been talking about this for a long time,” Trump said after signing the order in […]
Nobody ‘Stealing’ Your Jobs, You Spend to Much on Wars, Alibaba Tells U.S….
Chinese billionaire and Alibaba founder Jack Ma believes that improper distribution of funds and hyper inflated US military spending, not globalization or other countries “stealing” US jobs, is behind the economic decline in America. The Chinese business magnate earlier in January met with US President-elect Donald Trump, who has bemoaned the loss of American industry…
China Connects East & West with Longest Bullet Train Line…
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 […]
