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1. ‘Six months’ notice’ and The Art of the Squeeze

   Brian Mulroney: Mr. Turner, with a document that is cancellable on six months’ notice? Be serious… Please, be serious. John Turner: Well I have never been more serious in my life. Brian Mulroney: Please, please. That was the final ...

2. New trade pact mixed bag for Canadians

   The long-running soap opera that was the NAFTA renegotiations has ended—at least for now. At the last minute before President Trump’s September 30 midnight deadline, Canadian and U.S. negotiators finalized an agreement that expands an ...

3. Shrinking U.S. trade deficit likely bad news for U.S. trading partners

   Ordinarily, official announcements of the monthly U.S. trade deficit get minimal attention from the media. Not so for the recent announcement by the U.S. Commerce Department of the March 2018 U.S. trade deficit. Numerous media reports ...

4. Under threat—the lucrative export of U.S. dollar notes and U.S. Treasury securities

   President Donald Trump’s policies to balance trade and increase employment will likely fail because of an iron law of international economics: If a country spends more on goods and services than it produces, the difference must be ...

5. William Watson: The Trump-Sanders anti-trade, anti-progress alliance

   It’s been a tough call this U.S. primary season, choosing between the Republican and Democratic debates. The Republicans are livelier, in a UFC-style sense, at least, and on average the policy positions they propose seem slightly more ...

6. U.S. suspicion of Chinese investment an opportunity for Canada

   Chinese companies are on a foreign buying spree. For example, Chinese companies have recently made takeover offers for Ingram Micro Inc., a U.S.-based technology products distributor, Syngenta, an agricultural seeds manufacturer based in ...