Articles by Bryan Riley

New Report Shows Outsourcing Fears Are Misplaced

Bryan Riley | June 27, 2012

While fears of “outsourcing” continue to make headlines, the facts show there is no “giant sucking sound” resulting from dollars fleeing the United States to… Read More

Extend the African Growth and Opportunity Act

Bryan Riley | June 19, 2012

On June 20, the House Foreign Affairs Committee will hold a hearing on renewal of the African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA). Among the textile… Read More

How Trade Agreements Can Promote U.S. Constitutional Values

Bryan Riley | June 18, 2012

The United States is currently engaged in a trade negotiation known as the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) with eight other Pacific Rim countries. Public Citizen… Read More

Economy

Help Poor People by Cutting Trade Barriers

Bryan Riley | June 15, 2012

In 2011, the U.S. government spent more than $22 billion in non-military foreign aid while collecting $6.8 billion in taxes on imports from the world’s… Read More

Russia, PNTR, and Human Rights

Bryan Riley | June 13, 2012

Progress on the ability of U.S. firms to take advantage of new business opportunities when Russia joins the World Trade Organization (WTO) took a step… Read More

“Tear Down This Wall”

Bryan Riley | June 11, 2012

June 12 marks the 25th anniversary of President Reagan’s historic speech at Berlin’s Brandenburg Gate. Over the objections of advisors who thought the lines were… Read More

U.S.–Russia Trade and the Magnitsky Act

Bryan Riley | June 07, 2012

Today, the House Foreign Affairs Committee unanimously approved the Sergei Magnitsky Rule of Law Accountability Act (H.R. 4405), a measure designed to promote human rights… Read More

Economy

End the U.S. Sugar Program

Bryan Riley | June 06, 2012

The Depression-era sugar program was supposed to end in 1940. Instead, the Senate may soon vote on whether to extend it to 2017. The sugar… Read More

Economy

Trade Deficit Increases. . . or Does It?

Bryan Riley | March 16, 2012

The U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) just announced that the country’s current account deficit for 2011 was $473.4 billion. This number includes transactions like… Read More

Politics and a New Trade Bureaucracy

Bryan Riley | March 06, 2012

President Obama just announced plans to borrow millions of dollars from countries likeChinato create a new federal bureaucracy tasked with policing the trade practices of… Read More

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