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The One Thing That Will Help Restore U.S.-China Trade Balance

By Dave Johnson
November 19, 2009

Have you heard of the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission? Their job is to assess the national security implications of the trade and economic relationship between the United States and the People's Republic of China. Actually, that’s a big deal, especially now. read more »

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Beyond Obama's China Trip: Facing The Economic Dragon

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November 19, 2009

On the heels of President Obama's trip to China, Carolyn Bartholomew, the chair of the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission, and Clyde Prestowitz, the president of the Economic Strategy Institute, discuss how the United States should respond to the Chinese economic juggernaut. read more »

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Back To Our Old Ways On Trade?

By Dave Johnson
November 13, 2009

This just in from Reuters: U.S. trade deficit widened in September. read more »

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What Chinese Currency Manipulation Looks Like

By Eric Lotke
November 12, 2009

As President Obama packs for China, I thought I’d draw him a picture of how China is manipulating its currency.
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Tripping in China: Barack Obama's Challenge

By Robert Borosage
November 12, 2009

This week, Barack Obama trips to China as part of an eight-day trip to Asia. The White House paints a full agenda: Afghanistan, human rights, North Korean nukes, climate change, trade relations, and the economy. But it's really just the economy, stupid.

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U.S. Stimulus Helping Chinese, Spanish Wind Energy Industries

By Natasha Chart
November 3, 2009

Wind energy is supposed to be able to create thousands of manufacturing jobs, but unfortunately the early wind energy manufacturing jobs financed by U.S. read more »

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Where Will the Jobs Come From?

By Robert Borosage
October 21, 2009

They are popping the bubbly on Wall Street. Million-dollar bonuses, the Dow at 10,000, the casino is open again. Forget President Obama, who says we can't go back to an economy where finance pockets 40 percent of the profits. We're already headed there.

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Green Goods Tariffs Could Disappear Between OECD Nations, China

By Natasha Chart
October 13, 2009

A deal being worked out to encourage China's agreement to steep emission cuts at the Copenhagen negotiations by eliminating tariffs on green goods among all the OECD countries and China may end up worsening the market for American made goods, but not inevitably. read more »

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Climate Change Legislation Must Stimulate Demand, Be Tough On Pollution

By Natasha Chart
October 2, 2009

Consider these three worrying things: First, there's some risk that putting the wrong type of price signal solely on domestic pollution may transfer both jobs and pollution overseas, while increasing pollution. read more »

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With a Receptive White House, Labor Begins to Line Up Battles

From The New York Times
September 23rd, 2009

The New York Times — When China’s president, Hu Jintao, attends the G-20 summit meeting this week in Pittsburgh, he will no doubt complain about the punitive tariffs that the Obama administration recently slapped on Chinese tires and steel.

While Mr. Hu is certain to make his displeasure known to President Obama, the man responsible for pressuring the administration to act on those disputes will be elsewhere, sitting in his office a few hundred yards from where the meeting is taking place.

That man is Leo W. Gerard, the president of the United Steelworkers, often viewed as the No. 1 scourge of free traders.

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