Labor under siege in Wisconsin over free trade Layoffs, plant closings underscore workers’ fears Supporters say the economy has changed, so adjust Free trade hurts workers more than it helps, say Wisconsin union members, as presidential candidates seek their support. David Goldstein McClatchy DC BY DAVID GOLDSTEIN Maurice King worked for Joerns Healthcare, a medical […]
By He Qinglian Will the Chinese economy have a hard landing? Absolutely not, according to Xu Shaoshi, director of China’s state economic planning agency. A hard landing of China’s economy is not a possibility, and neither is it possible that China’s slowdown will drag down the global economy, Xu said at a news conference during […]
Deal is China’s first contract for high-speed Line in U.S. A China Railway Group-led consortium and XpressWest Enterprises LLC will form a joint venture to build a high-speed railway linking Las Vegas and Los Angeles, the first Chinese-made bullet-train project in the U.S. Construction of the 370-kilometer (230-mile) Southwest Rail Network will begin as soon […]
Zhou Xiaochuan, governor of China’s central bank, told a meeting of Group of 20 finance ministers in Ankara that a stock-market bubble in his country had “burst,” according to Japan’s Taro Aso. Another official present at the talks said China had presented the country’s situation as a new normal. “It wasn’t enough,” Aso told reporters. […]
The New York Times has made reference to Trump in a way that will make these Globalist heavy hitters pause and blink while drinking their morning coffee (Here in “As Stock Market Plunges, Donald Trump Takes a Worldview” by Alan Rappeport): “Mr. Trump has said that bad trade deals with China and Mexico are to blame […]
By Michael Snyder Did you see what just happened? The devaluation of the yuan by China triggered the largest one day drop for that currency in the modern era. This caused other global currencies to crash relative to the U.S. dollar, the price of oil hit a six year low, and stock markets all over […]
By Matthew Vadum The current feel-good push for a $15 an hour minimum wage has nothing to do with helping workers and everything to do with advancing the goals of the left wing, especially the labor movement. This is true despite the occasionally soaring rhetoric of President Obama amid the Left’s incessant whining about “income […]
Congress should not grant President Obama authority to conclude another free trade agreement in Asia, because it would lower American wages and exacerbate income inequality. The Trans-Pacific Partnership would eliminate tariffs and lower other regulatory barriers to trade and investment among the United States, South Korea, Japan, and nine other Pacific Rim nations. If successful, […]
In 2010, President Obama sold Obamacare with the line “If you like your insurance, you can keep it.” Millions of canceled policies later we discovered the line was a lie. Now, Obama and his salesman are saying the Trans-Pacific Partnership, aka Obamatrade, will keep China from taking over the world. Yet just this week, Obama […]
Animal rights groups are appalled by a new popular trinket being sold on the streets of China – live animal key rings. The key rings are attached to a bag filled with coloured water containing either a live Brazil turtle or two small fish. New fashion jewelry in China, animals living under plastic containing a […]
