Trade correspondent L.C. reports: President Trump is moving to wrap up trade talks with Japan and China and to get Congressional ratification of the USMCA. The trade talks are moving toward possible conclusion by the end of the year, but the USMCA is running into opposition from trade unions and Democratic legislators in the House. […]
Why Democrats shouldn’t complain about a citizenship question on the Census
Democrats are worried that if there is a citizenship question on the 2020 Census, illegal immigrants (and perhaps even legal Hispanic immigrants) won’t participate. This, Democrats fear, will lead to their being underrepresented in Congress and to the states where they predominate receiving less-than-deserved Federal funding. But there’s a simple remedy to this fear — […]
WTO reportedly rejects China’s claim to be market economy
Trade correspondent L.C. reports: China has reportedly lost the WTO case it brought against the EU for not granting it market-economy status. The report of this ruling comes from Bloomberg, citing two well-placed sources. WTO rulings are circulated to the parties to a case well before they are publicly released, so the report amounts to […]
Polar bears thriving, global warmists not so much
The well-fed polar bear above, if he could talk and read, would tell the global-warming-obsessed media, like the New York Times, how full of it they are. There have never been so many polar bears as now, the Inuit of northern Canada report. Unlike the Times reporters inhabiting the Upper West Side of New York, […]
US trade policies hurting farmers, driving allies closer to China
Trade correspondent L.C. reports: The Trump administration’s trade policies are facing serious threats worldwide. One of the president’s first acts in office was to exit the twelve-country Transpacific Partnership (TPP-12) negotiated by the previous administration. Japan, however, kept the free-trade-oriented pact alive minus the US, and now the American cows are coming home, literally (see […]
