Manufacturing

America's Emerging Economic Reincarnation

Tim Roemer | Posted 05.25.2012

Tim Roemer

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.

Mercantilism, Manufacturing, and a Political Problem

Ralph Gomory | Posted 05.22.2012

Ralph Gomory

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.

Private-company Sales, Margin Growth Continue

Mary Ellen Biery | Posted 05.22.2012

Mary Ellen Biery

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...

Dave Jamieson

Jobs Spurred By Bain Were Mostly Low-Wage

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 ...

Responsible Private Equity Investors Revitalizing U.S. Manufacturing

Marco Trbovich | Posted 05.17.2012

Marco Trbovich

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.

Manufacture, Baby, Manufacture?

Evan Soltas | Posted 05.16.2012

Evan Soltas

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.

Zach Carter

Issa Leaks Secret Document To Pressure Obama On Trade Deal

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 ...

Re Jobs, Pick the Low Hanging Fruit (Part 2)

Leo Hindery, Jr. | Posted 05.15.2012

Leo Hindery, Jr.

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.

Manufacturing Jobs

Jerry Jasinowski | Posted 05.15.2012

Jerry Jasinowski

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.

Eurozone's Economy 'Not Likely To Recover Any Time Soon'

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...

This Is America's 'Blind Spot'

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...

Detroit Shows Big Job Growth In One Sector

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...

A National Network for Manufacturing Innovation?

Ian Fletcher | Posted 05.02.2012

Ian Fletcher

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.

Dow Surges To Highest Close In More Than Four Years

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...

Dow Surges To Highest Level In More Than Four Years

Reuters | Posted 05.02.2012

* Herbalife shares tank on Einhorn remarks * ISM manufacturing growth tops expectations * Chesapeake to replace McClendo...

Making More in America: Creating Jobs and Rebuilding Our Middle Class

Stacey Lawson | Posted 04.27.2012

Stacey Lawson

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.

Republican Base, Manufacturing Base: Which Is the More Important?

David Coates | Posted 04.24.2012

David Coates

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.

Decoupling Myth Destroyed

Michael Pento | Posted 04.24.2012

Michael Pento

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.

1% Vs. 99% Battle Comes to GE Detroit Shareholder Meeting Tomorrow

Dave Johnson | Posted 04.24.2012

Dave Johnson

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%.

The System Isn't Broken; It Was Built This Way

Carl Gibson | Posted 04.23.2012

Carl Gibson

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.

Is Obama Getting Serious About Manufacturing? Maybe

Ian Fletcher | Posted 04.23.2012

Ian Fletcher

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.

Manufacturing Companies Considering Moving Jobs Back To U.S. From China, Survey Finds

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...

Deepening the Conversation on The Third Industrial Revolution

Jeremy Rifkin | Posted 04.20.2012

Jeremy Rifkin

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.

String Of Embarrassing Recalls Keep Drug Company's Popular Products Off Shelves

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....

The National Manufacturing Strategy Debate

Dave Johnson | Posted 04.14.2012

Dave Johnson

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?