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  • Trump administration is drafting plan to allow US consumers to import drugs from Canada

    07/31/2019 4:01:46 PM PDT · by Poison Pill · 51 replies
    CNBC ^ | 7/30/2019 | Berkeley Lovelace Jr.
    Trump is working on a proposal that would allow the U.S. to import drugs from Canada, HHS Secretary Alex Azar says.“Working on a plan on how we can import drugs safely and effectively from Canada so the American people get the benefit of the deals that pharma themselves are striking with other countries,” he says.
  • Breaking: White House Announces China Committed To Increasing Ag Purchases

    07/31/2019 8:04:55 AM PDT · by SeekAndFind · 29 replies
    Hotair ^ | 07/31/2019 | Ed Morrissey
    Is a trade deal with China just around the corner? The White House announced this morning that an “enforceable trade deal” is now in sight after “constructive” talks with China in Shanghai. In a key concession, China has agreed to open its market for more American agricultural imports, which would be a huge win for farmers in the Midwest.That is, if China gets pinned down to that position: Update from the White House on the Shanghai talks: "The Chinese side confirmed their commitment to increase purchases of United States agricultural exports. … we expect negotiations on an enforceable trade...
  • Moderators Should Press Candidates on Policy Proposal Consequences

    07/30/2019 9:34:18 AM PDT · by Kaslin · 18 replies
    Townhall.com ^ | July 30, 2019 | Alfredo Ortiz
    The Democratic debates tonight and tomorrow will likely stick to the familiar script from the first ones, with candidates tripping over each other to see who can promise the biggest tax-spend-and-regulate agenda. This doesn't make for compelling television. President Trump nailed the description of the first round with his one-word tweet, "BORING!" To make the debates more exciting to watch and to provide voters with a glimpse of reality into Democrats' fantasy-world policy proposals, the CNN moderators must press the candidates on the consequences of their proposals. A good place to start is by challenging their uniform support of the...
  • US-China trade talks collapse was ‘not normal’, says veteran US negotiator, as focus turns political

    07/29/2019 9:35:46 PM PDT · by cba123 · 25 replies
    South China Morning Post ^ | Published: 1:39pm, 29 Jul, 2019 Updated: 11:27pm, 29 Jul, 2019 | Finbarr Bermingham
    The dramatic collapse in US-China talks in May suggested that Chinese negotiators did not have full political backing for the concessions they proposed to reach a deal to end the trade war, according to a veteran US trade official ahead of the resumption of face-to-face negotiations this week in Shanghai. China was reported to have made last minute, large-scale edits to a near-150 page trade agreement draft, which scuppered the prospects for a deal after 11 rounds of negotiations. The changes suggested that Chinese negotiators never “really connected with all the people who needed to be connected to in order...
  • Trump says Apple will soon announce plans to build a new factory in Texas

    07/28/2019 9:30:17 PM PDT · by 2ndDivisionVet · 61 replies
    Phone Arena ^ | July 28, 2019 | Alan Friedman
    Stop us if you've heard this before. According to Reuters, President Donald Trump said that Apple will follow his wishes by opening a U.S. factory in Texas. The president's comments were made the same day that he disseminated a tweet saying that he would not grant the tech giant a waiver that would prevent it from having to pay import taxes on parts for the Mac Pro imported from China. Trump also pointed out that if Apple made the parts in the states, it wouldn't face tariffs on them. While Apple designs its products in the U.S., many of them...
  • Trump's economy is on fire, but Democrats aren't so hot (and that's why he'll win in 2020)

    07/28/2019 3:46:02 PM PDT · by 2ndDivisionVet · 5 replies
    Fox News ^ | July 28, 2019 | Dan Backer
    The U.S. economy is roaring. More voters rate the economy positively today than have since 2001. According to spending data from June, Americans spent more at restaurants and retail locations than expected, while U.S. manufacturing output continues to rise. As Federal Reserve Vice Chair Richard Clarida recently put it, "The U.S. economy is in a good, good place. We have a solid growth rate. We have a strong labor market. Inflation is stable." He’s right. Economic growth has been north of 3 percent during much of Trump’s presidency. Employers are creating jobs, employees are happy with raises, bonuses, and newfound...
  • President Trump Building Economic Landscape for 2020…

    07/27/2019 11:44:40 AM PDT · by bitt · 8 replies
    CONSERVATIVE TREEHOUSE ^ | 7/27/2019 | SUNDANCE
    President Trump Building Economic Landscape for 2020…Earlier today President Trump sent a warning tweet about Apple possibly incurring tariffs on their products if they continue a plan for manufacturing in China. Later in the day the president answered direct questions about those possible tariffs. Additionally, Secretary Wilbur Ross was very insightful when he also spoke of the current U.S. perspective toward the U.S-China trade negotiation. If you have followed the basic road-map of America-First, there’s a very clear picture; however, most pundits and trade analysts will likely ignore the message. [Apple will not be given Tariff waivers, or relief, for...
  • The Trade-War Growth Slowdown

    07/27/2019 7:07:17 AM PDT · by reaganaut1 · 11 replies
    Wall Street Journal ^ | July 26, 2019
    ... Business investment has been cool since last year’s third quarter when the President revved up his trade brawl with China. Executives have reported delaying investment decisions since they don’t know the impact of his multifront trade war on cross-border supply chains. Foreign investment in the U.S. has been declining with capital flows from China falling 87.9% between 2016 and 2018. Trade uncertainty increased last quarter after negotiations with China collapsed in May. Then the President threatened tariffs on Mexico as a cudgel to curb immigration from Central America. Around the same time, the Trump Administration blindsided businesses with a...
  • Trade Wars Are Sending Jobs Elsewhere

    07/25/2019 3:56:31 AM PDT · by reaganaut1 · 54 replies
    Wall Street Journal ^ | July 24, 2019 | Matthew J. Slaughter
    The costs of America’s trade disputes with the world continue to mount. Academic studies document clearly, for example, that new U.S. tariffs on washing machines and other products have raised U.S. consumer prices of those goods, thereby cutting into Americans’ real incomes. New government data suggest that another cost is building. Foreign direct investment into America by multinational companies headquartered abroad is falling. In 2015 and 2016, America’s FDI inflows totaled $482 billion and $486 billion, respectively. Soon after taking office in January 2017, President Trump launched several new trade disputes; that year FDI into the U.S. tumbled nearly 40%...
  • Trump Threatens Guatemala With Tariffs and Remittance Fees for Breaking Safe Third Agreement

    07/23/2019 8:25:15 AM PDT · by mplc51 · 18 replies
    President Trump threatened Guatemala on Tuesday with tariffs and remittance fees after the Central American country pulled out of their agreement with the Trump administration. As The Hill reported the two countries had not formally committed to such a safe third deal, which would require Guatemala to process asylum claims from migrants who set foot there first on their way to the United States. Guatemala’s Constitutional Court earlier this month blocked President Jimmy Morales from declaring the nation a safe third country. President Trump: Guatemala, which has been forming Caravans and sending large numbers of people, some with criminal records,...
  • 'They will definitely take revenge': how China could respond to the Hong Kong protests

    06/30/2019 1:05:44 AM PDT · by Zhang Fei · 39 replies
    Guardian ^ | Sat 29 Jun 2019 19.00 EDT Last modified on Sat 29 Jun 2019 19.02 EDT | Verna Yu
    According to the Communist ideology, ‘We are the people’s representatives’, so the party cannot accept people rising up against it and forcing it to back down,” said Joseph Cheng, retired political science professor at the City University of Hong Kong. The authorities also have a deep-rooted tendency to blame problems on foreign interference instead of their own governance weaknesses, political commentator and veteran journalist Ching Cheong said. “China sees Hong Kong as influenced by years of colonial rule and having no sense of responsibility to introduce laws to protect the national security or to help the country nab fugitives,” said...
  • Chinese companies looking to buy U.S. farm products

    07/21/2019 10:30:10 PM PDT · by Farcesensitive · 29 replies
    Reuters ^ | July 21, 2019 | Michael Martina & Louise Heavens
    Some Chinese companies are seeking new purchases of U.S. agricultural products, China's official Xinhua news agency said on Sunday, citing authorities, as Beijing and Washington look for ways to end a protracted trade war. U.S. President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping agreed at last month's G20 summit in Osaka to restart trade talks that stalled in May. Trump said at the time he would not impose new tariffs and U.S. officials said China agreed to make agricultural purchases. But Trump said on July 11 that China was not living up to promises to buy U.S. farm goods. Chinese...
  • Trump’s China Tariff Strategy Is A Bigger Gambit Than Meets The Eye

    07/19/2019 9:35:43 PM PDT · by cba123 · 67 replies
    The Federalist ^ | 7/19/2019 | By Keith Nobles
    The trade war between China and the United States isn’t a conflict that will remain confined to the economy. It’s a risky play in a new Cold War. -- Much has been written about the economic wisdom and potential effects of the Sino-American trade war. Yet few understand that the trade war is just one front in what we should view as the Second Cold War. China seems to be in the lead in developing and employing technologies like artificial intelligence, hypersonic missiles, and 5G (which has extensive defense and intelligence system applications). Together, these technologies could create a strategic...
  • Michelle Obama Claims People Dismiss Presidency After Barack: ‘If a Black Guy Can Do It, Anybody...

    07/07/2019 3:28:05 PM PDT · by E. Pluribus Unum · 109 replies
    Breitbart ^ | 07 July 2019
    FULL TITLE: Michelle Obama Claims People Dismiss Presidency After Barack: ‘If a Black Guy Can Do It, Anybody Can’ In a Saturday interview, former first lady Michelle Obama insisted that Americans now dismiss the U.S. presidency because a black man was recently in the office. Speaking to TV host Gayle King during the 2019 Essence Festival at the Mercedes-Benz Superdome, Obama exclaimed that husband Barack made the presidency “look too easy,” Fox News reported. “I guess it’s kind of like if the black guy can do it, anybody can do it — and that’s not true. It’s a hard job,”...
  • Chinese Intellectual Property (IP) ‘theft’ doesn’t justify Trump’s tariffs

    07/19/2019 12:48:45 PM PDT · by SeekAndFind · 48 replies
    Trib Live ^ | 07/18/2019 | DONALD J. BOUDREAUX
    Among the most politically potent arguments for President Trump’s punitive tariffs on your, my and other Americans’ purchases of imports from China is the claim that these tariffs are a tool for reducing Chinese theft of Americans’ intellectual property (IP).While IP theft in China does occur, as my Mercatus Center colleague Daniel Griswold and I argue in a recent paper, this theft provides far less justification for Trump’s tariffs than is commonly believed.First, the extent of such theft is overblown. Much of this “theft” is in fact in-kind taxation. Beijing requires that certain foreign companies seeking to do business...
  • More than 50 companies reportedly pull production out of China due to trade war

    07/19/2019 7:04:13 AM PDT · by lasereye · 11 replies
    CNBC ^ | 07/18/2019 | Yun Li
    The pace of companies moving production out of China is accelerating as more than 50 multinationals from Apple to Nintendo to Dell are rushing to escape the punitive tariffs placed by the U.S., according to the Nikkei Asian review. The trade war between the U.S. and China has dragged on for more than a year with 25% tariffs placed on $200 billion of Chinese goods. President Donald Trump is still threatening to slap duties on another $325 billion of goods. In wake of the intensifying battle, more and more companies announced plans or are considering shifting manufacturing from China. American...
  • Beware, the IRS is eyeing your inherited money

    07/15/2019 10:21:23 AM PDT · by DFG · 42 replies
    Market Watch ^ | 07/15/2019 | Staff
    One of the perils of being well-off is the constant risk that the federal government and/or your friendly state and local tax collectors will figure out new and different ways to snatch more of your wealth. Especially wealth that you earned the old-fashioned way: by inheriting it. To raise your paranoia to the appropriate level, here are two new things to worry about. Few noticed when the House of Representatives in May overwhelming passed the imaginatively named “Setting Every Community Up for Retirement Enhancement (SECURE) Act of 2019.” The vote was 417-3. Senate passage was thought to be a mere...
  • Bitcoin price tumbles following Trump’s criticism

    07/15/2019 9:52:30 AM PDT · by xzins · 20 replies
    Fox News ^ | July 15, 2019 | Katherine Lam
    The price of bitcoin tumbled Monday after President Trump Opens a New Window. tweeted Thursday that he was “not a fan” of cryptocurrencies and criticized Facebook’s Opens a New Window. Libra digital currency that’s set to launch next year. Bitcoin price briefly hit below $10,000 just after midnight Monday, a two-week low for the leading digital coin, Coindesk’s data Opens a New Window. showed. The cryptocurrency appeared to rebound slightly to bring it past $10,000 as of Monday morning. It’s unclear what caused the sudden price drop, but it comes just days after Trump took to Twitter to slam cryptocurrencies....
  • Economic improvement in China’s northeast rust belt is just skin deep as state firms bleed

    07/15/2019 2:02:42 AM PDT · by Zhang Fei · 5 replies
    South China Morning Post ^ | Published: 6:30pm, 14 Jul, 2019 | Elaine Chan
    When China’s central government chose Shenyang Machine Tool, a state-owned manufacturing behemoth in the northeastern province of Liaoning, to undergo a programme of reform two years ago, it probably imagined it would provide a yardstick for the broader regeneration of the region as a whole. It could not have been more wrong. While the provincial authorities reported growth of 6.1 per cent in the first quarter, which was on a par with the national figure, little of that upturn came courtesy of Shenyang Machine Tool. In fact, the company’s decline, coupled with years of losses due to mismanagement and political...
  • China's Q2 GDP grows at slowest pace in 27 years

    07/14/2019 7:40:00 PM PDT · by lasereye · 22 replies
    Marketwatch ^ | July 14, 2019 | Liyan Qi
    BEIJING--China's gross domestic product rose 6.2% in the second quarter from a year earlier, the slowest pace in at least 27 years, according to official data released on Monday. The result was the slowest since the first quarter of 1992 when the earliest quarterly data was available, according to Wind. In the first quarter, China's GDP grew 6.4% from a year earlier.