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Howard Richman, Raymond Richman, and Jesse Richman
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September 6, 2017
Time to Close the Foreign Investors Tax LoopholeNo longer should the U.S. tax code discourage manufacturing investment. No longer should it punish savings and wealth creation. No longer should it encourage tax-cheating. No longer should it favor foreigners over Americans.
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June 30, 2017
European Union Loots GoogleEurocrats are punishing the global tech company for doing its job better than anyone else can. They're also taking away future inventions from the United States.
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February 10, 2017
Paul Ryan’s Border Adjustment Tax vs. Donald Trump’s Targeted TariffsThe 2016 election was a referendum on the imbalanced global trading system. It lost. To correct this, various proposals are on the table. The most effective one is likely to be President Trump's targeted tariffs.
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December 22, 2016
Four Ways to Balance the Budget and Boost the Economy by Taxing ForeignersDonald Trump’s election creates, for the first time in decades, the potential for major tax reform.
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April 5, 2016
The People are Right: It’s Time to Balance TradeIf the U.S. is to prosper, U.S. international trade has to be brought into balance. But our nation’s leaders of both political parties have been doing next to nothing.
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December 20, 2015
Will the Trans-Pacific Partnership Force Us to Fund the Paris Climate Agreement?The Cato Institute says there's nothing to worry about. We're not so sure.
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November 20, 2015
What's Actually in the Trans Pacific Partnership?Among other things, a legislative body superior to Congress, a vehicle to pass Obama’s climate change treaty, increased legal immigration and reduced patent protection for U.S. pharmaceuticals. As they say on TV, but wait! There's more.
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October 30, 2015
Trump on TPP: 'Why can't they just put it off until I become elected?'If Congress votes it down this winter, then the next President will be able to renegotiate the Trans-Pacific Partnership with the same fast-track authority that Congress gave Obama.
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September 30, 2015
Can We Trump the Record U.S. Trade Deficit with China?Since Obama took office, the difference between our imports and exports of goods with China has been worsening steadily.
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June 23, 2015
Today is the big vote on ObamatradeToday’s Senate cloture vote is the last and best chance for conservatives to stop Obamatrade.
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May 13, 2015
Fast Tracking an International EPAIf Fast Track passes, Obama will be empowered to create the equivalent of an international EPA, enable currency manipulation, and slow U.S. economic growth.
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May 3, 2015
Fast-Tracking America's Economic DestructionGiving President Obama “Fast Track” negotiating power may go down in economic history as among Republicans’ most self-destructive decision ever.
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February 10, 2015
Tax Corporate Income as Personal IncomeWhat are the arguments in favor of the corporate income tax? Only that we have learned to live with it in spite of its defects.
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January 27, 2015
Let's End Means-Tested BenefitsRepublicans can start out the year strong by aggressively pursuing policies designed to make it worthwhile to work.
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April 24, 2014
China Stealing U.S. Chicken IndustryWith precious little pushback from our "betters" in Congress and the White House.
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January 22, 2014
Fast Track to a Bad DealWhy would Republicans want to hand over trade policy exclusively to Obama?
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September 23, 2013
EPA Foils Clean FuelCausing needless nitrogen oxide, sulfur dioxide, particulate, and mercury air pollution
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April 5, 2013
The Gods of the Copybook Headings are in CyprusIn his 1919 poem, The Gods of the Copybook Headings, Rudyard Kipling compares the truths of the real world ("the Gods of the Copybook Headings") with the promises of social progressives. Cyprus just got a dose of the former.
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December 8, 2012
Fiscal Cliff: Negotiation Failure could be the Best OptionBoth parties in the fiscal cliff negotiations are planning to keep the budget deficits at well over $1 trillion per year. The U.S. debt-to-GDP ratio would continue to explode.
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November 13, 2012
The Fiscal Cliff Is a Good ThingThe entire discussion of the "fiscal cliff" has things a bit backward. It's time to face our looming debt problem head-on.
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November 2, 2012
Obama Fiddles while China Gets JeepPresident Obama continues to make China a more favorable business climate than the USA. Our biggest car companies are noticing.
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October 4, 2012
Obama's Freudian Slip - He Wants to Export JobsNo, Obama is not "channeling [his] opponent" when he says he wants fewer jobs in the United States.
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July 10, 2011
How to Restore America's Manufacturing InnovationWhy should American companies devote time and money to innovations that will soon be stolen by China?
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April 14, 2011
House Prices in Free FallIf current trends continue, real house prices (house prices after subtracting inflation) will likely lose about a quarter of their real value over the next 4 years.
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January 9, 2011
A Scaled Tariff Would Help Balance the 2011 BudgetAmerica's two critical deficits -- budget and trade -- are easier to balance simultaneously than to balance separately.
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December 10, 2010
Bernanke to China: Stop Hurting Us or You'll Hurt UsFederal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke could not resist telling the Chinese government how to run its economy.
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October 19, 2010
The 'Move Your Corporate Headquarters Offshore' ActObama's "Creating American Jobs and Ending Offshoring Act" will backfire and drive corporate headquarters -- and their high-paying jobs -- out of the U.S.
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September 24, 2010
How to Win the Trade War with the DemocratsThere are two trade wars going on at the moment. One is between the mercantilist countries and the United States; the other is between the Democrats and the Republicans.
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August 7, 2010
U.S. Growth Slows Due to Trade DeficitShipping money overseas does not stimulate domestic economic growth.
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June 30, 2010
Obama's G-20 Summit SetbackAt his press conference following the June 25-26 Toronto meeting of the G-20 nations, President Obama claimed that the summit was a success. He lied.
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April 15, 2010
Obama Bows while Hu Stiffs HimThe body language tells us a lot about who calls the shots.
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February 24, 2010
Obama Giving U.S. R&D to ChinaThe United States and China are involved in a trade war, the outcome of which will determine who gets America's remaining manufacturing industries and research and development centers.
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November 23, 2009
Obama's Failed Asia TripPresident Obama went to Asia this month with great hopes that he could persuade the Chinese government to let its people buy more American products. He failed.
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November 5, 2009
Is It Time to End the IMF and WTO? -
October 8, 2009
Exit Strategy from the Great Recession -
August 11, 2009
Celebration is Premature: The Economy is Still ContractingThe recession is not deepening as fast as it had been during previous months, but the economy is contracting.
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July 13, 2009
America sliding into a pit of foreign debtUnited States net foreign debt hit 24.3% of our GDP, at the end of 2008, according to a report issued on June 26 by the Bureau of Economic Analysis, and the media have collectively yawned.
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July 3, 2009
Capping and Trading Away Our JobsExamining the alternative universe in which this is good for America.
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May 29, 2009
Obama's Plan A is Not WorkingObama's recovery plan has already failed to live up to his economic advisors' predictions.
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May 18, 2009
Obama Stands By while Europe Loots IntelEuropean antitrust chief Neelie Kroes bragged that she was raising money to support the European taxpayer
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June 14, 2008
Straight talk from Clinton's trade negotiatorIt is rare when a government official actually blames himself for his mistakes. That