Stormy wrote in 2008 a narrative for the last few decades on trade…still relevent: Trade means jobs; trade brings money into plants; trade surpluses ripple through the economy, providing not…

…because American income increases. * Import Certficates by a trade deficit country don’t cause a trade war. They tie imports to exports. Any trade-surplus country that tries to counter the…

…this same Great Illusion, embraced by corporate media pundits so often. That free trade inevitably leads to peace and democracy is a Big and Dangerous Lie, to which World War…

…could be changed. Big silence. Yet the rise of inequality world-wide is connected to trade imbalances and to foolish trading agreements. My piece, “Trade and the Great Recession” spells out…

…causing reduced employment and trade deficits. He looks at the graph and takes out the dot.com boom, the mini recession, the housing boom and the great recession. Brad and Drum…

The monthly trade data was reported this morning and you will see press reports about the nominal trade deficit. But I like to look at the real trade data as…

…in the 4th quarter of 2004. The great recession generated the severe world wide downturn in trade, but US imports are obviously rebounding much more than US exports. If you…

…forecasting records around, poo-pooing both the housing bubble and the early signs of the Great Recession a decade ago, along with forecasting a hyper-inflation out of Obama fiscal policy, although…

rdan Trade policy debate begins in Pennsylvania? America’s economy is now struggling to recover from the Great Recession. But even when the economy was said to be humming, it did…

…being great and 2009-2010 already looking dicey. It’s a great move for Canada, but any delusion that it is Obama-, not data-driven should be confined to the WSJ editorial page….