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Are Foreign Jobs So Dear and Foreign Cars So Sweet?
03/18/2010
Thomas Heffner


In the near future we may find our living standard diminished and our prospects for growth and economic independence dampened.

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Featured Contributors

The Offshored Economy
03/19/2010
Paul Craig Roberts

In the 20th century, Detroit, Mich., symbolized American industrial might. Today it symbolizes the offshored economy.

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Sober Up
03/18/2010
Ernest F. Hollings

Few people realize that for the past fifty years the policy of the United States government has been to get rid of jobs.

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Dodd financial reforms won't fix banks
03/17/2010
Peter Morici

America's banks are as vulnerable today as before the credit crisis and reforms offered by Senate Finance Committee Chairman Christopher Dodd won't fix things.

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How the Economy was Lost, Doomed by the Myths of Free Trade
03/16/2010
Paul Craig Roberts

The American economy has gone away. It is not coming back until free trade myths are buried six feet under.

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Rob Portman Gets Blasted for Free Trade Record +  

by Dustin Ensinger on March 19, 2010 - 11:08am

The Ohio Conference on Fair Trade said that during the Portman-era as U.S. Trade Rep., 17,000 Ohio jobs were outsourced while the trade deficit rose 6.5 percent.  Portman also allowed the U.S. trade deficit with China to swell to over $200 billion for the first time in history.

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What to Expect from Jobs Bill +  

by Dustin Ensinger on March 19, 2010 - 3:41pm

President Barack Obama signed into law a $38 billion piece of legislation on Thursday designed to spur job growth through tax cuts and infrastructure spending, although many economists dispute just how effective the bill will actually be.

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Reclaiming America's Place as the Greatest Nation +  

by Craig Harrington on March 19, 2010 - 2:08pm

Perhaps now is the time, in light of all that has happened to this so-called “great” nation, for us to start acting like a superpower once again.

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What the U.S. can Learn From Germany +  

by Craig Harrington on March 19, 2010 - 10:00am

Award winning author and economist Eamonn Fingleton discusses how the German economy operates in comparison to the U.S.

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Weak Start for Stocks, Germany: Don't rule out IMF help for Greece +  

by Craig Harrington on March 19, 2010 - 9:47am

In other news, as the Greek debt crisis continues to draw on, some in the German government are broaching the possibility of involving the International Monetary Fund in the bailout of Athens.

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Opinion-Editorials

America's "Houdini Recovery" under IMF-Type Austerity
03/19/2010
Stephen Lendman

"Why Is the recovery jobless? Maybe because it isn't a recovery"

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The ‘state of the union’ and what can be done about it
03/18/2010
Michelle Applebaum

Even though the United States has been a low-cost steel provider for nearly a decade now, we still remain the world’s largest importer. It makes no logical economic sense for this country to have imported 14.7 million tons in 2009

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Fed Reg: Notice taking applications for Manufacturing Council
03/17/2010
Michael Stumo

The Department of Commerce is currently seeking applications
for membership on the Manufacturing Council. It is important to get people on this council that understand the need to balance our trade at all costs, rather than old-style free traders.

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Fixing Our Economy and Country
03/16/2010
Tom Rafter

The continued loss of our industrial base coupled with the subprime crisis, decline in the housing market, tightening credit and rising deficits have all devastated the economy.

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