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Chinese leaders unhinged as economy weakens

November 19, 2018 by Richard Schulman Leave a Comment

Papua New Guinea's prime minister concedes that for the first time in its history there would be no final communique. China refused to approve the US draft critical of its trade policies. China's emissaries freaked out and provoked an international incident by barging into Papua New Guinea offices trying to reverse the situation to its favor.

Trade correspondent L.C. reports: An economic summit of world leaders held in Papua New Guinea ended in acrimony yesterday, the Wall Street Journal reported today, “as a fight over Chinese trade practices cast doubt over the ability of Washington and Beijing to resolve their trade battle soon. For the first time in the Asia-Pacific Economic […]

Filed Under: Trade  Tagged: auto tariffs, business uncertainty, China

What would a great US statesman now do?

November 16, 2018 by Richard Schulman Leave a Comment

Will President Trump extend a statesman-like hand to Theresa May and the UK now that it would really make a difference for both?

Our ally in multiple recent wars, the United Kingdom, is now paralyzed over its attempt to make an acceptable exit from the bureaucracy-encumbered European Union (EU). President Trump applauded this exit (“Brexit”) when it was first proposed, and he applauded the surge of British patriotism that supported it. The US President could now commit a […]

Filed Under: Trade  Tagged: BREXIT, China, Donald Trump, Theresa May

Trade in split Congress likely to be bipartisan but protectionist

November 12, 2018 by Richard Schulman Leave a Comment

Xi-Trump summit unlikely to settle US-China trade differences

Trade correspondent L.C. reports: In the wake of the highly partisan US midterm elections, trade is one of the few areas where bipartisanship is possible. Most observers believe that Congress will pass the US-Canada-Mexico (USMCA, a.k.a. NAFTA 2.0) implementing bill during 2019. It is also likely that Congress will approve the start of trade talks […]

Filed Under: Trade  Tagged: midterm elections, protectionism, split Congress, USMCA, Xi Jinping

Why John and Jill can’t major in science

November 11, 2018 by Richard Schulman 1 Comment

Jaime Escalante at the calculus blackboard

In a previous Founders Broadsheet we addressed the question of why so many US students were never properly taught how to read, crippling their lifelong academic and intellectual development. An even larger number of US high school graduates– perhaps more than 95 percent — never receive an adequate mathematics education during their kindergarten-through-12th (K-12) grade […]

Filed Under: education  Tagged: calculus, NCTM, R. James Milgram, Ralph Raimi, statistics

Pacific allies sign major free trade pact without US

November 5, 2018 by Richard Schulman 1 Comment

The Trans-Pacific Partnership now goes into effect for the six initial signing nations. Many others are expected to follow, but not the US, once a supporter

Trade correspondent L.C. reports: The new Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) has passed its last hurdle and is about to enter into force. On October 31st, Australia became the sixth country to lodge its ratification document with New Zealand, the TPP document depository. The six ratifying countries are Japan, Canada, Mexico, Singapore, New Zealand, and Australia. The […]

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