Category: Tariff

The trade pact being negotiated between the United States and Mexico gets a bit convoluted when it comes to North American content of cars manufactured in Mexico. The numbers are aimed at increasing content manufactured in the United States. The Office of the U.S. Trade Representative said Monday that Mexico…

Tariffs will be driving up the price of Coca Cola in the United States…do you think that will cause a pause that refreshes in the White House? James Quincey, the CEO of the Coca-Cola Company, said Wednesday that the company would be raising the prices of its carbonated offerings due…

This appeared in the Ideals Lab section of the print edition of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel on Sunday July 8, 2018. Since MJS no longer posts letters to the editor on their JSOnline website, I can neither link to it nor cut and paste it here. But I think this…

I don’t find this kind of stuff any funnier than suggestive phrases on t-shirts. And I don’t have an axe to grind about designer clothing or designer shoes. But to pawn this off as high fashion when many Americans actually have to lengthen the life of their shoes with tape…