Trade
China Puts U.S. Soybean Farmers On Alert, Bans Import Of U.S. Grown Soybeans
By Mac Slavo China is responding to the United States’ trade war by banning the import of soybeans grown by U.S. farmers into the Communist…
China Slams “Barbaric” US Behavior Toward Huawei as a “Declaration of War”
By Tyler Durden (ZH) — A letter written by He Tingbo, president of HiSilicon, a semiconductor company owned by Huawei, was published on Friday in China. In…
3 Reasons the China-US Trade War Won’t Be Cooling Down Anytime Soon
By Greg Wright The truce in the U.S.-China trade war is in tatters. China said on May 13 that it will impose new tariffs on…
Trade Wars and Other Black Swan Threats to Your Investments
By Stefan Gleason An unexpected news event caused the stock market to plunge over the past week, with the Dow Jones Industrials losing several hundred…
China Says That There Will NEVER Be A Trade Deal Until The U.S. Agrees To Their Demands
By Michael Snyder Unless someone backs down in a major way, this trade war is going to last for a very long time, and the…
How The Trade War Is Going To Affect You And Your Family
By Michael Snyder As expected, trade negotiations with China concluded on Friday with no trade deal in sight. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin called the negotiations…
China Has Propped Up Global Markets Since December — Is This About To End?
By Brandon Smith This article was written by Brandon Smith and originally published at Birch Gold Group Global stock markets and some treasury markets have…
The withdrawal of India’s GSP should not put at peril the Indo-US Collaboration and Strategic Partnership
Op-Ed by Amar Maruti Patil, Adithya Anil Variath The decision of Donald Trump’s administration terminating India’s designation as a beneficiary of Generalized System of Preferences…
The Global Economy Desperately Needs Freedom
By Richard M. Ebeling How many bureaucrats are there in the world? The global population currently numbers more than 7.5 billion people. Out of that…
Food Prices Will Rise In 2019 Adversely Impacting Those Living Paycheck To Paycheck
By Mac Slavo Almost 80% of Americans live paycheck to paycheck barely able to afford to put food on the table. That’s terrible news considering…
Trade War Causing Severe Pain As Farm Bankruptcies Surge Way Past The Level From The Last Recession
By Michael Snyder Farmers all across the middle part of the country are going bankrupt at an astounding rate, and over half of all farms…
Will Government Shutdown Return As The Trade War Expands?
By Brandon Smith The mainstream economic community has a notoriously short attention span and a lack of long-term perspective. After the longest government shutdown in…
US Blunders Have Made Russia The Global Trade Pivot
Op-Ed by Mathew Maavak The year 2019 had barely begun before news emerged that six Russian sailors were kidnapped by pirates off the coast of…