The White House’s energy and trade policies are straight out of the ’80s
Jun 5, 2018

The White House’s energy and trade policies are straight out of the ’80s

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A year-plus into NAFTA negotiations, President Donald Trump might be considering a new tactic: Split up the whole thing into two bilateral deals with Mexico and Canada. We'll take a look at what that would look like. Then, we hear from more businesses feeling the effects of the brewing trade war and looking for exemptions. Plus, 10 years and an internet economy explosion later, the Justice Department and the Federal Trade Commission are taking stock of real estate data and broker commissions. 

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China's quiet hunt to hire top U.S. researchers

Jun 5, 2018
Academics at U.S. schools are being recruited to help build the Chinese economy.
In a picture taken in 2010 Professor Shi Yigong, who walked away from a top research position in the United States to become the dean of the School of Life Sciences at Beijing's prestigious Tsinghua University in 2008, places a note among bottles of bacterial culture in a university lab in Beijing.
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Who controls the data that fuels real estate deals?

Jun 5, 2018
A decade ago, the government told the real estate industry to start sharing its data. What has that meant for competition?
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A world without NAFTA. How would that work?

Jun 5, 2018
After more than a year of three-party talks to renegotiate the North American Free Trade Agreement, President Donald Trump’s top economic aide says a new approach is needed. Larry Kudlow told “Fox & Friends” Tuesday morning that the administration now prefers to negotiate with Mexico and Canada separately. “When you have to compromise with a […]

Filing for a tariff exemption? You probably need a lawyer

Jun 5, 2018
The cost of legal fees has come up among many we’ve interviewed about the process of applying for exemptions from steel and aluminum tariffs from the Department of Commerce. Kate Karol, counsel at Butzel Long in Detroit, has been working with several clients on their applications and said the people at her firm have spent […]

Trump, Perry propose a lifeline for coal and nuclear sectors that critics say is unnecessary and would be harmful

Jun 5, 2018
The latest directive would allow the Energy Department to use a complex wartime law in the interest of national security.

For this Canadian company, tariffs "hit from both ends"

Jun 5, 2018
"We should all be working together" says Paul McGrath of JEM Strapping Systems.
Workers remove a coil from the production line for quality-control testing during steel production at the NLMK Indiana steel mill in March in Portage, Indiana.
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A year-plus into NAFTA negotiations, President Donald Trump might be considering a new tactic: Split up the whole thing into two bilateral deals with Mexico and Canada. We’ll take a look at what that would look like. Then, we hear from more businesses feeling the effects of the brewing trade war and looking for exemptions. Plus, 10 years and an internet economy explosion later, the Justice Department and the Federal Trade Commission are taking stock of real estate data and broker commissions. 

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