Four global forces, as they are leveraged and exploited by American business and political leaders, will help the United States recreate itself and revive into a 21st century economic powerhouse by 2025.
Ralph Gomory | Posted 05.22.2012
People talk a great deal about free trade. But for better or for worse the real world that we live in is more a mercantilist world than it is a free markets and free trade world.
Mary Ellen Biery | Posted 05.22.2012
Privately held U.S. companies -- the millions of businesses that drive job creation and GDP -- are growing sales so far this year at about the same ra...
HuffingtonPost.com | Dave Jamieson | Posted 05.17.2012
Earlier this week, the campaign for GOP presidential hopeful Mitt Romney released a video called "American Dream," touting the investment of Romney's ...
Marco Trbovich | Posted 05.17.2012
Michael Peck, chairman of Isofoton North America, a 60-year-old Spanish solar firm investing in solar facilities in western Ohio, asserted that having a truly sustainable economy guided by ESG principles means changing how the culture views workers.
Evan Soltas | Posted 05.16.2012
Over the past two decades, the intercept had been largely in negative territory -- normally between -2 and -5, with the severe manufacturing contraction during the 2000 recession seeing a moment in which the intercept hit -15 for the year.
HuffingtonPost.com | Zach Carter | Posted 05.16.2012
WASHINGTON -- House Oversight Committee Chairman Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) has taken the unprecedented step of leaking a secret U.S. trade document, in ...
Leo Hindery, Jr. | Posted 05.15.2012
With the largely jobless recovery continuing -- only 115,000 new jobs created in April -- it's far past time for both Houses of Congress to work with the Obama administration to get really serious about large-scale job creation.
Jerry Jasinowski | Posted 05.15.2012
We can make a major dent in the jobless rate by providing unemployed workers with the skills they need to fill an estimated 600,000 vacancies in manufacturing today -- a number that continues to grow.
Reuters | Posted 05.15.2012
* Euro zone GDP stable at 0.0 pct change in Q1 from Q4 2011 * Germany surprises with 0.5 percent growth in Q1 * French g...
Reuters | Posted 05.10.2012
* Each job at a foreign firm's U.S. unit supports 3 others * Manufacturing employment leads other sectors * U.S. slice o...
Posted 05.09.2012
Reversing the trend of the previous decade, Detroit has added more manufacturing jobs in the last two years than all but one other metropolitan area i...
Ian Fletcher | Posted 05.02.2012
Mainstream neoclassical economics assumes that new technologies grow automatically from advances in pure science. It also assumes that new technologies automatically commercialize themselves. But both these assumptions are observably untrue.
AP | MATTHEW CRAFT | Posted 05.02.2012
NEW YORK — The fastest growth in U.S. manufacturing in 10 months gave stocks a lift Tuesday and pushed the Dow Jones industrial average to its h...
Reuters | Posted 05.02.2012
* Herbalife shares tank on Einhorn remarks * ISM manufacturing growth tops expectations * Chesapeake to replace McClendo...
Stacey Lawson | Posted 04.27.2012
We need to make the American dream a reality again by restoring the high-wage jobs that are the foundation of a sustainable economic recovery.
David Coates | Posted 04.24.2012
The American economy is in trouble now primarily because the industrial policy to which the Republican Party currently subscribes remains hugely influential and entirely inadequate.
Michael Pento | Posted 04.24.2012
Downward pressure on the U.S. economy is already becoming apparent. Data on home sales, industrial production, jobless claims and regional manufacturing surveys have all recently disappointed.
Dave Johnson | Posted 04.24.2012
The cause of our terrible economic inequality is clear: the 1% have too much power, and use that power to enrich themselves at the expense of the rest of us -- the 99%.
Carl Gibson | Posted 04.23.2012
Where in the world can we go to get an accurate picture of where capitalism will inevitably lead us 20 to 30 years down the road? Communist China, ironically.
Ian Fletcher | Posted 04.23.2012
Let's take a look at a speech recently given by Gene Sperling, Director of the National Economic Council. It's a good metric of whether the administration "gets it" on manufacturing, and gives a fairly clear picture of the evolution of its thinking.
The Huffington Post | Alexander Eichler | Posted 04.22.2012
Manufacturing work might actually be coming back to America. More than one-third of executives at big manufacturing firms say they're either consid...
Jeremy Rifkin | Posted 04.20.2012
With both presidential campaigns now turning their attention to the question of how to re-industrialize the economy and jump start growth, the time has arrived for a much needed national conversation on how to transition into a Third Industrial Revolution.
The Huffington Post | Jeffrey Young | Posted 04.18.2012
It's going to take a while longer for Johnson & Johnson to get rid of the headaches provoked by a string of recalls of popular over-the-counter drugs....
Dave Johnson | Posted 04.14.2012
The Obama administration recently describing the vital importance of a healthy manufacturing sector to our economy. But others say promoting manufacturing won't help revive our economy. So what's the story?
Tim Roemer | Posted 05.25.2012