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I believe the most important thing Americans must do is to secure their economic well-being in an increasingly challenging, complex world. What I have written about all these years is the process of creating wealth, not for any one individual, but for the United States as a whole. Ever since I was a young correspondent witnessing the emergence of China after the country opened in 1979, I’ve believed we have to get more serious about creating wealth. I retain faith in the resiliency of the U.S. economy and the enterprise of American people. If Americans have the right strategies, we can once again create widespread wealth. Come with me on this journey.
Good News on Reshoring
May 1, 2018
The Reshoring Initiative people are on top of their game and are the leading experts on job creation in America as a result of U.S. companies bringing jobs back or non-U.S. companies making investments. They show that that the United States created 171,000 jobs last year as a result of these trends. That’s great news. […]
Has President Trump Already Been Outmaneuvered on Korea?
April 30, 2018
An article of faith that has wisely guided American policy efforts regarding the Korean Peninsula is that the Americans need to remain in lockstep with the South Korean and Japanese governments, just as North Korea remains in sync with China and to some extent Russia. But even before Trump sits down with Kim Jong-un, presuming […]
Important Article on China’s New Colonialism
April 18, 2018
Chinese President Xi Jinping talks a lot about China going global and embracing mutually beneficial trade and investment ties with the world. But in practice, it appears that the Chinese are engaging in a form of colonialism that may be just as bad as, if not worse than, what European colonial powers did. This article […]
This appears to be overt Russian propaganda on Yahoo
April 8, 2018
This is marked as “sponsored”‘ on Yahoo News, but it is clearly propaganda from Russia. Everything about it, including the use of the English language, suggests that it did not originate in the United States. It came from Putin’s boys. Yahoo, you have a Facebook problem.
The Critically Flawed Assumptions Behind Trump’s Trade War Against China
April 2, 2018
Reading everything and listening to everything being said in the Trump camp about tariffs against China, there are two critically flawed assumptions: –One, as articulated by a scholar from the Heritage Foundation (a conservative think tank) on Bloomberg Radio, is that in a trade war, “the Americans might catch a cold but the Chinese will […]
The @realDonaldTrump Depression?
March 23, 2018
In a shockingly short period of time, we appear to be swinging from a period of U.S. economic gain to one that is quite possibly a disaster. The United States and China have essentially merged their economies and much of the world’s economy has been predicated on the assumption that the world will make things […]
