A long-awaited bipartisan bill on domestic manufacturing could run aground because of House-Senate differences over its trade chapter—reflecting intense corporate lobbying.
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Is It Racist to Criticize China?
Those who attack Tim Ryan’s ad challenging China’s predatory trade practices as ‘anti-Asian’ are playing a dangerous game.
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Fertilizer Firms Spread Wealth to Shareholders as Farmers Weather Extreme Prices
U.S. officials have banned fertilizer imports from key overseas competitors while domestic firms fork over billions in stock buybacks.
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China Policy: No Time for Mixed Messages
Today on TAP: With Xi bailing out Putin, the China bill pending before Congress needs to be stripped of special-interest measures that actually help Beijing.
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Old Lesson Learned Anew: Cross-Border Capitalism Doesn’t Deter Wars
Today on TAP: As Bob Kuttner has frequently noted (including today), the myths of capitalist globalization have been shattered.
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The End of Globalism
The world economic and financial system will never be the same.
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Another Free-Trader to a Key International Post?
Today on TAP: Biden is said to be considering Jay Shambaugh, former head of the Hamilton Project, as the Treasury’s top international official.
Posted inEconomic Policy
China: Epicenter of the Supply Chain Crisis
How concentrating dependence on China upended our economy and added risk
Posted inEconomic Policy
America’s Steel Spine
Will Biden resist pressure to weaken tariffs against China’s steel subsidies and double down on his industrial policy to revive domestic steelmaking?
Posted inPolitics
2022: The Year in Governing
Here’s everything to look out for over the next 12 months.
