This Independent Task Force report encourages the Obama administration and Congress to adopt a "pro-America" trade policy that brings to more Americans the benefits of global engagement.

Globalization has brought huge overall benefits, but earnings for most U.S. workers -- even those with college degrees -- have been falling recently; inequality is greater now than at any other time in the last 70 years. Whatever the cause, the result has been a surge in protectionism. To save globalization, policymakers must spread its gains more widely. The best way to do that is by redistributing income.

In the past three years, many countries have adopted or expanded regimes to review inward foreign direct investment (FDI) for either national or economic security purposes, reducing the quantity and quality of global FDI flows. The policy recommendations in this report aim to correct this protectionist drift by proposing guidelines for how countries can better regulate FDI yet still reap its economic benefits.

Drawing on the lessons of the Information Technology Agreement, Matthew Slaughter calls for the elimination of international trade and investment barriers in energy industries.

Matthew Slaughter, Ted Alden, Andrew Card, and Tom Daschle recommend the U.S. adopt a comprehensive trade policy to revitalize the American economy.

Matthew Slaughter and Robert Lawrence urge Washington to cut more free-trade deals while expanding the safety net for displaced workers.

Matthew Slaughter explains how stronger Chinese protection of intellectual property rights could create American jobs.

Matthew Slaughter argues that to help create good jobs companies must be free to invest where they are most productive.

Martin Baily, Matthew Slaughter, and Laura D'Andrea Tyson discuss a new study about how the United States is in a new era of global competition to attract, retain and grow the operations of multinational companies that it's never faced before.

Matthew Slaughter argues that tax increases on the foreign operations of U.S. based multinationals would not create American jobs, but destroy them. For many global firms there is an inherent complementarity between foreign and U.S. operations.

Matthew Slaughter discusses the rise of foreign direct investment from developing into developed countries via M&A transactions. He says that leaders in advanced countries must remember the benefits of inward FDI and resist protectionist pressures.

Matthew Slaughter writes that as the crisis and recession recede, U.S. policymakers must refocus on persistent structural problems, particularly income inequality.

Matthew J. Slaughter argues that "President Obama's recent soundbites suggest an uncompetitive auto industry."

Paul Danos, Matthew J. Slaughter, and Robert G. Hansen argue that the Employ American Workers Act will actually decrease the total amount of jobs available.

In this Wall Street Journal op-ed, Matthew Slaughter argues that a bailout for America's Big Three automobile companies could come with substantial costs, including decreased foreign direct investment into the U.S. and diminished access to foreign markets.

As emerging economies in Middle East and Asia become bigger foreign investors they are facing a new protectionist trend in many countries across the globe, write David Marchick and Matthew Slaughter.

Matthew J. Slaughter argues that our immigration policy keeps out many of the world’s best workers, and as a result threatens America’s competitiveness. The solution? Eliminate the cap on H1-B visas.

Ford Motor Company recently announced it will sell its Jaguar and Land Rover divisions to India's Tata Group. In this Wall Street Journal op-ed Matthew Slaughter argues that such foreign direct investment has long been a source of strength for the American economy. American policy makers should strive to make the U.S. a premier location for the dynamic, high-productivity activities of globally engaged companies—both insourcing companies and U.S. multinationals alike.

Many are viewing the UAW-GM strike as Exhibit A for how globalization damages America . Matthew Slaughter argues that America ’s automobile industry is a prime example of the aggregate gains generated by the dynamic and interrelated forces of trade, investment and technological change.  He questions how the presidential contenders will craft an American economic policy that both allows greater globalization and also spreads its gains as widely as possible.

The Information Technology Agreement signed in 1996 played a significant role in the doubling of productivity growth over the past decade. To maintain this rate of income growth, further liberalization is needed.

Matthew Slaughter argues that China's exchange rate policy has no long-run effect on real economic outcomes such as output and trade flows.