If you liked this post, please share or recommend! Email “Second Opportunity” reads this headline from La Vanguardia, one of Spain’s leading daily newspapers, the morning after President Obama was re-elected to a second term. This theme was repeated in the coverage of U.S. election results which received front page attention worldwide. The Foreign Policy featured its top ten front pages from around the...

If you liked this post, please share or recommend! Email Our last post began a two-part examination of President Obama’s trade policy which highlights three areas: Expanding market access through trade agreements Enforcing trade rules in favor of US businesses Expanding exports through an SME Initiative and the National Export Initiative Part I assessed the Obama Administration’s performance in expanding market access....

If you liked this post, please share or recommend! Email As President for the past 3 years and 9 months (as of September, 2012), President Obama leaves a track record that allows interested observers to assess his accomplishments on trade and what his trade policy will be if he is re-elected. As required by law and following the practice of his predecessors, since 2009 the Obama Administration has made public an annual document...

If you liked this post, please share or recommend! Email With Mitt Romney about to accept the nomination to be the 2012 Presidential candidate for the Republican Party, this seems an appropriate time to revisit the issue raised in a previous post about the trade platforms, or lack thereof, of the four main candidates in the Republican primary. As I indicated then, Mitt Romney’s platform most clearly articulated a direction for...

If you liked this post, please share or recommend! Email President Obama has declared the week of May 20th – 26th National Small Business Week, 2012. The Presidential Declaration refers to small businesses as the backbone of the US economy. It also uses the opportunity to highlight two key initiatives begun by the Obama Administration to promote and support small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and encourage greater...