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America’s dirty war against manufacturing.

By on January 20, 2012 in Economics, Politics

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-01-20/america-s-dirty-war-on-manufacturing-part-3-commentary-by-carl-pope.html Interesting piece from Bloomberg by Carl Pope, on how the idea of having an industrial policy doesn’t fly in the U.S. Some excerpts, “I am told I cannot talk about industrial policy in polite American company,” Dow Chemical Co. Chief Executive Officer Andrew Liveris told a business audience last March. “I’m not sure why, since [...]

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Fiddling around with numbers.

By on December 10, 2011 in Economics, General Discussion

In 2010, real GDP (I will ignore the issue of how real it is) was $14.5 trillion. In that same year, mean (not median) family wage income was approximately $40 thousand. There are about 115 million families, so the total wage income was around $4.6 trillion. If you recognize that GDP represents, if change in [...]

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Beijing’s air pollution.

By on December 8, 2011 in General Discussion, Human Behavior

A couple interesting pieces on air pollution in Beijing. I am sure most of you have heard that the airport there had to be closed recently due to smog levels, so it is interesting to see some visual evidence of that. http://motherjones.com/blue-marble/2011/12/beijing-pollution-problem-press http://sites.asiasociety.org/beijingair/  

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Reconsidering our Southern Border

By on November 24, 2011 in General Discussion

  Mexico is being savaged by Chinese trade. Quietly while we look the other way China is undoing the entire western Hemisphere with its export-ocean of slave labor products. If you thought for one moment that the outsourcing of jobs was hitting the US Labor force hard then multiply that by ten to imagine the [...]

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The edge grows weaker.

By on October 16, 2011 in Economics

From an interview with a gentleman who runs a company named Taphandles in Washington state on how it is making more sense for his company to have manufacturing in the United States. ‘A Boston Consulting Group analysis released last week found that manufacturing outsourced to China has begun to return to the United States as [...]

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