Monday Quick Hits

It's been a while since I last cleared the decks, so these headlines will go back a couple weeks:

• Former Chair of President Clinton's Council of Economic Advisers Laura D'Andrea Tyson systematically and correctly explains why China's currency policies should not be the focus of this week's US-China Strategic & Economic Dialogue.  (Although it all sounds awfully familiar, if you ask me.)

• AEI's Phil Levy explains the absurdity of the AFL-CIO's opposition to the US-Colombia FTA.

• Unlike most other countries, the United States isn't really interested in Chinese investment.

• Undaunted, Chinese investors are still trying to give us money and jobs, and, fortunately for us, they are occasionally successful.

• The Economist looks at the effect of trade on carbon emissions.

• The US Steel Industry is doing really well these days. (Somebody should tell steel-loving protectionist Reps. Visclosky and Murphy.)

• All of China's currency meddling is pushing the Chinese government to increase the nominal value of its currency.  (Shocking, I know.)

• World Bank study: China will become less trade-dependent over the next decade. (Good writeup of the study here.)

• Chinese study: China's exports will inevitably slow, while its imports will surge. 

• China's one-child policy is creating some serious economic pressures.

• The US-Korea FTA had a pretty ridiculous setback in Korea's National Assembly.  Unfortunately for US exporters, the National Assembly seamlessly approved the EU-Korea FTA a few days later.  (Tick tock tick tock, President Obama.)

• Art Carden explains why the iPad isn't bad for the US economy (and yes, that is apparently a necessary economics lesson for some in Congress).

• US inches closer to allowing Mexican trucks to travel on American roads; retaliatory tariffs on $1.2 worth of US exports remain in place until that actually happens.

• Heritage: The "Age of America" will only end if we let it.

• Steve Horwitz on the pernicious fallacy of the "fixed jobs pie."

That should keep y'all busy for a while.