Bryan Riley, Author at The Daily Signal

Goolsbee Appointment Good News for Global Trade

Bryan Riley | September 10, 2010

President Obama reportedly plans to name Austan Goolsbee to head his Council of Economic Advisers. This appointment is good news for advocates of expanded international… Read More

The Sky (Still) Isn’t Falling

Bryan Riley | August 31, 2010

In the 1980s and 1990s, Chicken Littles warned that Japan was buying up America. The biggest symbol that our country couldn’t keep up with Japan’s… Read More

Trade Deficit Reality Check

Bryan Riley | August 30, 2010

Consider these recent print headlines: Economic Growth Slowed by Trade Gap; Economic Growth Cut Sharply Due to Trade Gap; and Economy Slows to 1.6 Percent… Read More

Economy

The Back-to-School Supply Tax

Bryan Riley | August 17, 2010

Many states offer “tax holidays” for shoppers during the back-to-school season, but families everywhere still pay extra at the checkout counter due to hidden import… Read More

Celebrate Manufacturing Workers, Too!

Bryan Riley | July 29, 2010

If Congressman Peter Defazio (D–OR), sponsor of the End the Trade Deficit Act, had grown up in Kansas instead of Massachusetts, he might have learned… Read More

Send Trade Critics Back to School

Bryan Riley | July 20, 2010

Critics of free trade have used funny math to mislead Americans for decades. It may be time to send these critics back to grade school,… Read More

U.S. Trade Deficit Improves

Bryan Riley | July 14, 2010

On July 13, the government released international trade statistics for the first five months of the year showing a growing trade deficit—and almost no one… Read More

The Cost of a Seat at the Table

Bryan Riley | July 09, 2010

President Barack Obama recently announced the appointment of 20 private-sector members to the President’s Export Council. Although the President promised to provide Americans an “unprecedented… Read More

Going to Bat for Exporters

Bryan Riley | July 08, 2010

President Barack Obama recently promised that his Administration will be “going to bat” for U.S. exporters. A look at his specific recommendations suggests that the… Read More

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