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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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Oh, no … not that!

By on November 2, 2011 in General Discussion

It seems like the European “leaders” and many US financiers are really rattled by the idea that they have to wait for Democracy to be revisited … and in Greece, no less! Imagine: Pampandreau has called for a referendum so that the people of Greece can decide whether they favor a controversial plan that will [...]

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The Germany of the U.S.

By on October 1, 2011 in Economics

I was wondering what the U.S. equivalent of Germany would be, since Germany is only a part of the Euro zone. Are there states that carry the country in much the same way Germany carries the Euro zone? So after digging around in some numbers here is America’s Germany. A note on the numbers, there is some discrepancy [...]

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