Comments for Why Should We Care What the Chamber of Commerce Tells Us About China? at http://www.cepr.net , comment 1 to 3 out of 3 comments http://www.cepr.net Mon, 17 Jun 2013 22:40:13 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.3 http://www.cepr.net/index.php/blogs/beat-the-press/why-should-we-care-what-the-chamber-of-commerce-tells-us-about-china/#comment-494 How seen we forget. "Free trade" open markets will provide Mericans with low cost goods, spur innovation and productivity, increase domestic GDP, instigate the development of ground breaking new products, yada yada braddelong yada. Well, wrong on all counts. Walmart (Chinese) goods are anything ut innovative and cost much more (when the entire costs of unemploment and health insurance, destruction of the infrastructure, etc) are considered. - zinc Fri, 07 May 2010 14:04:56 +0100 http://www.cepr.net/index.php/blogs/beat-the-press/why-should-we-care-what-the-chamber-of-commerce-tells-us-about-china/#comment-491 So China keeps their currency low against the dollar so their workers make the equivalent of $150/month, driving down US wages and jobs. So the executives from the US want to "break in" to Chinese markets by trying to sell things to people that make an average of $3000/year? Probably won't being doing too much "breaking in" with US workers. If anything, this will worsen the situation. It is all about the currency, and nothing but the currency. - David Fri, 07 May 2010 08:14:19 +0100 http://www.cepr.net/index.php/blogs/beat-the-press/why-should-we-care-what-the-chamber-of-commerce-tells-us-about-china/#comment-485 That's right Mr Global Demand-Sider, all you think about is the import consumption side, demand demand demand, cut demand to improve the trade deficit, never a word of support for the Global Supply-Siders, the ones who really make things and create jobs here in the US in markets free of protectionism. How do you expect WalMart employees to make a living if Supply-Siders from the US can't break into protected Chinese markets? Stupid liberals. - izzatzo Fri, 07 May 2010 03:59:10 +0100