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Protestors to Goldman Sachs: "You Are Not God" - Bernanke Explains Why

Mike Elk | Posted 11.17.2009 | Politics

Read More: Matt Taibbi, Lloyd Blankfein, Goldman Sachs, Financial Transaction Tax, Federal Reserve, National People's Action, Manufacturing, Ben Bernanke, Dean Baker, Politics News
Mike Elk

Goldman Sachs is, in the words of Rolling Stone journalist Matt Taibbi, "a great vampire squid wrapped around the face of humanity, relentlessly jamming its blood funnel into anything that smells like money."

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Topic #1 for the Upcoming White House Jobs Summit: How to Keep Clean Energy Jobs Here at Home

Phil Angelides | Posted 11.16.2009 | Green

Read More: Manufacturing, Jobs, Clean Energy, China, Recession, Jobs Summit, Green News
Phil Angelides

Absent clear and deliberate policies to keep green manufacturing jobs here, the market will do is what it has done in the past: continue to send good manufacturing jobs overseas.

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Celebration, Cancer, God

Stephen Gyllenhaal | Posted 11.10.2009 | Politics

Read More: Declaration of Independence, Cancer, Health Care, Manufacturing, Goldman Sachs, Health Care Reform, God, Politics News
Stephen Gyllenhaal

Calling Goldman Sachs a murderous, blood sucking cancerous leech etc, isn't perfect either, but it's going to have to do.

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President Obama Brings 10,000 Manufacturing Jobs Back from China (Headlines We'd Like to See)

Gilbert B. Kaplan | Posted 11.06.2009 | Business

Read More: Digital TV, International Trade, Unemployment, President Obama, Currency, Jobs, Manufacturing, Subsidies, Election Results, China, Business News
Gilbert B. Kaplan

We have neglected the manufacturing base of our economy in much the same way we have neglected financial regulation. There simply is no manufacturing policy in the United States.

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Wall Street's War Against the Real Economy and We, the People

Dave Johnson | Posted 11.04.2009 | Business

Read More: Manufacturing, Wall Street, Private Equity, Costco, Business News
Dave Johnson

For decades the real economy has been "financialized" by the Wall Street types -- sold off piece by piece, providing short term profits for a very few.

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Tiffany's Looks To Africa As Diamond Industry Shifts

Wall Street Journal | By VANESSA O'CONNELL | Posted 10.26.2009 | Business

Read More: Retailers, Strike, Diamonds, Cutting, Diamond Mining, Debeers, Manufacturing, Laurelton Factory, Diamond Polishing, Jwaneng Diamond Mine, Jwaneng Mine, Retail, Sourcing, Jewelry, Diamond Sourcing, South Africa, Tiffany's, Unions, Diamond Cutting, Mining, Africa, Botswana, Aids, Polishing, Sa, Mogoditshane, Business News

In a windowless factory in this African village, Tiffany is teaching more than 80 workers to transform raw diamonds into gems for Tiffany engagement r...

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Bloomberg: US GDP Probably Grew 3.2% As Stimulus Took Hold

Bloomberg | Timothy R. Homan | Posted 10.25.2009 | Business

Read More: Recovery, Car Sales, Durable Goods, Gdp, Economy, Cash for Clunkers, Commerce Department, Manufacturing, Economic Growth, Wall Street, Recession, Home Sales, Business News

The economy in the U.S. probably grew in the third quarter at the fastest pace in two years as government stimulus helped bring an end to the worst re...

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Building the New Economy

Scott Paul | Posted 10.23.2009 | Business

Read More: Infrastructure, American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, Trade Deficit, Unemployment, Wall Street, Green Jobs, Manufacturing, Green Business, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Joblessness, Labor Unions, Auto Industry, Current Account Deficit, American Manufacturing, Business News
Scott Paul

Some of us warned this day would come. We knew an economic strategy predicated on replacing wage growth with debt and credit to maintain a certain standard of living was doomed to fail.

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Life Cycles of Consumable Goods: Lower-Impact Shades of Green

Renée Loux | Posted 10.22.2009 | Green

Read More: Fuel, Energy, No Impact Week, Lifestyle, Local, Renewable Energy, Green, Manufacturing, Personal Care Products, Recycled, Low-Impact, Lifecycle, Green Living, No Impact, Consumption, Paper, Home, Reduce, Consumerism, Nontoxic, Recycle, Green News, Environment, Reuse, Plastic, Food, Nontoxic Products, Green News
Renée Loux

Understanding the "life-cycle" of any consumable good offers a fairly accurate sense of how "green" it really is -- basically, where things come from and what happens to them when we are done with them.

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Where Will the Jobs Come From?

Robert L. Borosage | Posted 10.21.2009 | Business

Read More: Manufacturing, Global Balance, Trade, Economy, Green Technology, Public Investment, China, Recession, Business News
Robert L. Borosage

Wall Street can produce another bubble, but that won't put the 15 million without jobs to work, one third of whom have been out of work for at least six months.

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Advocating for a Weak Dollar Policy Is Like Throwing a Birthday Party for Osama Bin Laden?

Mike Elk | Posted 10.19.2009 | Business

Read More: Manufacturing, Federal Reserve, Ezra Klein, Paul Krugman, Weak Dollar, Exports, Business News
Mike Elk

What is "free trade"? What is "fair trade"? "Weak dollar" policy? "Strong dollar" policy? Most people don't know so conservatives can easily come in and label something as fair trade that isn't necessarily good for anyone.

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Tom Friedman: Red China Is Going Green

nytimes.com | THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN | Posted 11.28.2009 | Green

Read More: Thomas Friedman, Sputnik, Green Technology, Green News, Manufacturing, China, Green Energy, Green Corporations, Green News

Well, folks. Sputnik just went up again: China's going clean-tech. The view of China in the U.S. Congress -- that China is going to try to leapfrog us...

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A Moment of Success (Finally!)

Karen Robinovitz | Posted 11.27.2009 | Style

Read More: Lip Plumper, Appetite Suppressant, Manufacturing, Hoodia, Karen Robinovitz, Lip Gloss, Purple Lab, Style News
Karen Robinovitz

In the last piece, we had just received 30,000 damaged components -- and I was suddenly suffering from severe acid reflex, brought on by stress. But this is the story of a bit of our bright light!

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The G20, Climate Talks, and Trade Measures: Keeping Jobs in America

Frances Beinecke | Posted 11.25.2009 | Green

Read More: Cap and Trade, Labor, Green Jobs, Climate Week Nyc, Free Trade, United Steelworkers, Manufacturing, g20, Green News
Frances Beinecke

Won't new climate legislation hurt American industry? Won't it send jobs overseas? The answer is no, it won't.

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Steel City: Forgotten but Not Gone

Eric Lotke | Posted 11.23.2009 | Politics

Read More: Manufacturing, Free Trade, G20 Summit, Travel, Trade Deficit, Economy, Politics News
Eric Lotke

The mainstream media needs to stop fetishizing the new economy. We can't eat electronic food or wear electronic clothes. We can't all be consultants forever, and America can't keep spending more than it earns.

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Pittsburgh Model Dramatizes Lessons for G-20 Summit

Gary Shapiro | Posted 11.23.2009 | Business

Read More: Gary Shapiro, Debt, Deficit, Innovation Movement, Consumer-Electronics-Association, Bailout, g20, Manufacturing, Free Trade, Innovation, Cea, Protectionism, Pittsburgh, Detroit, Business News
Gary Shapiro

Pittsburgh's experience offers a road map for American cities adjusting to manufacturing downturns and the new realities of the modern global economy.

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The G-20 Summit: Lessons from Pittsburgh

Eric Lotke | Posted 11.21.2009 | Politics

Read More: Manufacturing, U.S. Economy, Free Trade, Protectionism, G-20 Summit, Economy, Economic Crisis, Politics News
Eric Lotke

The G-20 Summit in Pittsburgh provides an opportunity for Americans to move beyond shibboleths of free trade and protectionism and to question the true functioning of the market.

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After the Tire Decision

Scott Paul | Posted 11.18.2009 | Business

Read More: U.S. China Trade, Manufacturing, China Tire Tariff Wto, Business News
Scott Paul

Prices for tires could rise by $3 per tire, while the economic benefits to the nation--in the form of jobs and wages saved, taxes paid, and corporate profits--will more than double that.

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Myths of Protectionism Are Spread to Exploit Workers and the Environment

Dave Johnson | Posted 11.18.2009 | Business

Read More: Fair Trade, Free Trade, Manufacturing, Protectionism, Trade, Business News
Dave Johnson

Why, exactly, is protectionism so bad? Why can't we have fair trade that lifts workers and protects the environment instead of unregulated free trade that exploits workers and the environment?

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Myths of Protectionism: Stories You Are Likely to Hear in the Wake of the China Tire Trade Tariff Case

Dave Johnson | Posted 11.14.2009 | Business

Read More: Manufacturing, Protectionism, Trade, China Tires Tariffs, China Tires, Business News
Dave Johnson

President Obama has decided to enforce our trade laws and imposed a three year tariff on Chinese tires. I suspect the country is about to witness a corporate hissy fit.

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A Manufacturing Manifesto for Mr. Bloom

Gilbert B. Kaplan | Posted 11.09.2009 | Business

Read More: International Trade, Auto Bailout, High Tech Companies, President Obama, Manufacturing, Auto Industry, Ron Bloom, Business News
Gilbert B. Kaplan

The ultimate goal must be to bring manufacturing back to a critical mass in this country. One major problem is that all the input suppliers and customers for manufacturers are moving abroad.

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Who Else is Against American Manufacturing?

Dave Johnson | Posted 11.08.2009 | Business

Read More: Reagan, Manufacturing, Wall Street, Tax Rates, Business News
Dave Johnson

Of course other countries have an interest in taking manufacturing business away from us to have for themselves.

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Unions Frustrated By Pace Of Change Under Obama

The New York Times | SHERYL GAY STOLBERG and STEVEN GREENHOUSE | Posted 10.22.2009 | Politics

Read More: Unemployment, Labor Department, Unions, Economy, Afl-Cio, Health Care Reform, Manufacturing, Obama, Labor Unions, Politics News

...Today that euphoria is giving way to a mixture of frustration and unease, as union leaders are growing concerned that the Obama White House has not...

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Who Opposes American Manufacturing? II

Dave Johnson | Posted 10.19.2009 | Business

Read More: Manufacturing, Protectionism, Trade, China Tire Case, Business News
Dave Johnson

A country's economic power comes from manufacturing. But while other countries have industrial policies, America has a de-industrialization policy.

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Who Would Be Against American Manufacturing?

Dave Johnson | Posted 10.17.2009 | Business

Read More: Manufacturing, Foreign Agents, Tires, Lobbyists, Unions, Business News
Dave Johnson

We are used to this kind of bad, antisocial, economically destructive behavior from self-interested American companies, organizations and people. And for some reason we seem to tolerate it.

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