For millions of Americans, April 15 is a day of dread. Taxes are due, and long lines at the post office beckon.

But in some circles, that date has a whole other meaning entirely. April 15 also happens to be one of the days this year that...

Last week saw the start of February, and in Washington the start of the month means data dumps. Numbers. Economic numbers. Jobs numbers. Lots of numbers.

Depending on their content (and on whether or not there's something deemed more interesting taking place on Capitol Hill) these reports are either...

There was an unfortunate bit of news lost in the headlines yesterday morning: For the first time since the second quarter of 2009, the economy has shrunk.

That's right: It shrunk. Shriveled. Those are ugly words, but they pack a little more punch than...

Walmart made a little bit of news on Tuesday. Right after the world's largest retailer committed to fast-tracking the hiring of more military veterans, it announced plans to source an additional $50 billion worth of American-made goods over the next decade.

Wow. That's a very...

Thanksgiving is a uniquely American tradition. We (over)eat food that is mostly grown or raised here, share time -- sometimes a little too much -- with family and friends, and reflect on the things for which we are the most thankful -- like NFL football games and the fact that...

In this "Jobs Election," voters deserve to know the truth about the U.S. auto industry. The Obama Administration's auto rescue preserved hundreds of thousands of middle-class jobs in America, and didn't send Jeep jobs to China. Otherwise, I'd be among the first to call them on...

If you tuned into the presidential debate Tuesday night wondering why President Obama and Mitt Romney spent so much time hitting each other on manufacturing and China, then you don't live in a swing state.

The good news is that America really has a future in manufacturing. ...

China. Tires. Outsourcing. Sweatshops. Auto parts. Currency manipulation. Made in America. Manufacturing. Cheaters.

All these words and ideas have a prominent place in the 2012 election. In our view, rightfully so. But the charges and counter-charges, the attack ads and responses, have done little to help define...

American manufacturing is like apple pie to American voters: we love it and want more of it regardless of our politics, race, gender, income, or hometown. If you live in a swing state like Ohio, you already know that, because both presidential candidates have flooded the airwaves with ads labeling...

Ten years after the United States officially ended its yearly review of China's trade status, no one can credibly argue that China is any freer or more attentive to human rights, nor can they claim the United States is better off economically as a result of our bilateral trade and...

Christina D. Romer, the former chairwoman of President Obama's Council of Economic Advisers, took U.S. manufacturing to task recently in a New York Times op-ed.  Headlined "Do Manufacturers Need Special Treatment?" Romer suggests that support for manufacturing needs to "go beyond the feeling that it's better...

If you want to win a bet next Tuesday, wager your friends that President Obama will say "Made in America" in the State of the Union address. It's the closest you'll ever get to a sure thing.

"Made in America" is a wildly popular notion across...

Insourcing. That's at the top of my trending list for 2012. But, how do we make reshoring--bringing jobs back from overseas--real? For America to have a thriving economy and lower unemployment, we need to create more good-paying jobs. And to do that, we'll have to win back some of...

Within a week, as the news and analysis of Osama bin Laden's demise fades, the American people will focus once again on the issues that matter most to their daily lives. For most Americans, that includes the jobs market and the state of our economy.

But no one is...

Deficit fever has swept through our capital, and President Obama has finally caught it. However, his speech is focusing on the wrong deficit. And that's because, quite sadly, our political culture is obsessed with the wrong deficit. Yes, the American people want to put our government's fiscal house in order....

When IHS Global Insight revealed this week that China has passed the United States to lead the world in manufacturing output, the response from some in government and manufacturing was to quibble with the data. The correct response is to develop a national manufacturing strategy, so...

Our new man in China, Gary Locke, will have a big, bilateral economic mess to help clean up. The United States posted a record $273 billion trade deficit with China last year. China continues to slow-walk the Yuan's appreciation against the dollar. And, China shows few...

There is no swifter way to alienate working class voters than to name an outsourcing CEO to lead your jobs strategy. Yet that's exactly what President Obama is doing.

General Electric CEO Jeffrey Immelt has fooled the media and the White House into believing that he cares about American manufacturing...

With Chinese President Hu Jintao's state visit, it is a good time to reflect on how the dysfunctional U.S.-China relationship has developed, and to consider why it may be time for a trial separation. For nearly 40 years, the U.S. and China seem to have modeled their partnership on Sid...

President Obama delivered just the right speech in Tucson. Can he replicate that performance for his State of the Union address on Jan. 25? For the sake of our nation's economic well-being, he must.

Just as our national psyche needed some healing this week, our nation's hopes and dreams...