…US bank or go offshore these funds are owned by foreign entities. Still, those foreign entities must use those funds to buy our exports, purchase US assets or invest in…

…smaller foreign company and pay for it partly with your own company’s stock to give the shareholders of the foreign takeover target at least a 20% ownership stake in your…

Paul Krugman has been explaining (very slowly and clearly) that if the US attracts foreign investment by cutting taxes on profits, then it will have to pay the foreign investors….

…driving innovation within the United States. At the same time, US MNCs have dramatically increased their overseas R&D expenditures. Figure 1 shows that US MNCs’ foreign R&D expenditures increased from…

…first used by French finance minister Valéry Giscard d’Estaing, refers to the ability of the U.S. to finance its current account deficits and acquire foreign assets by issuing dollars as…

by Joseph Joyce Is There a Future for FDI? Among the economic consequences of the coronavirus pandemic will be a drop in foreign direct investment activity. The latest issue of…

…aimed at Chinese firms. The U.S. is not alone in acting to restrict foreign investment. Several European countries have mechanisms to review foreign investment in order to protect critical technologies,…

…impose new high tariffs. Trump’s call for tariffs is not an economic plan; it is a worldview. Trump claims foreign countries pay tariff duties and thus putting new tariffs of…

In 2023, approximately one-fifth of the workforce was foreign-born. Of the 160.2 million people in the US workforce, and again about 29.7 million were immigrants. This is an increase from…

…Tr_mp political and personal attacks on immigration targeting race and differences “is discouraging foreign student enrollment. These students more than likely pay full tuition, subsidizing tuition for domestic students.” An…