Obama and Romney keep trading jabs on manufacturing and China. But are either...
Fact checking the "anti-China" rhetoric of President Obama and Mitt Romney.The presidential campaign is in high gear, and both candidates are firing back and forth with "I can do more to save...
View ArticleThe AAM Guide to the Denver Presidential Debate.
For Wednesday night's Presidential Debate, will Jim Lehrer ask the important questions on U.S.-China trade?China. Tires. Outsourcing. Sweatshops. Auto parts. Currency manipulation. Made in America....
View ArticleThe candidates keep slugging it out on China, but hypocrisy abounds.
Romney and Obama fight back and forth about who would be tougher on China, but both are flawed.President Obama and Governor Romney continue to take to the airwaves with competing ads that claim each is...
View ArticleThe China apologists say all is great with U.S. manufacturing.
It's not just t-shirts... The U.S. is losing high-tech jobs to China. So why do economists and academics make no comment about Beijing's intellectual property theft, human rights abuses, disregard...
View ArticleIt's okay to lose your job since you can always buy "stuff" from China.
Cheap goods from China are no substitute for good-paying jobs.Here we go again. In the Washington Post's 'Wonkbook,' Dylan Matthews trumpets the tired old canard that American consumers benefit from...
View ArticleYet another poll shows that Americans support manufacturing.
No matter who conducts the poll, the results are the same. Americans want Washington to stand up for domestic manufacturing, and they're still worried about outsourcing.A new poll conducted for the...
View Article4,000 Manufacturing Jobs Gained, 996,000 To Go.
During the 2012 presidential campaign, President Obama set a goal of creating 1 million new manufacturing jobs in his second term. Now, as his second term is underway, the U.S. manufacturing sector...
View ArticleTaking our economic temperature with the #AAMeter
The latest jobs numbers are in. How are we doing in creating new manufacturing jobs?Last week saw the start of February, and in Washington the start of the month means data dumps. Numbers. Economic...
View ArticleBeijing's irony and "chutzpah" regarding currency manipulation is so...
China is the world's greatest currency manipulator. Now, Beijing is worried that other countries might start devaluing as well.Okay, first the story, as reported by the Associated Press:China's...
View ArticleThe House tries again to tackle China's undervalued currency.
The whole world knows that China manipulates its currency to gain a price advantage when exporting to the U.S. market. Members of Congress have introduced a new, bipartisan bill to take action. Even...
View ArticleClever timing and irony when it comes to China's currency manipulation.
Disappointing news-- the U.S. Treasury Department once again fails to cite China for currency manipulation. And Beijing pretends to make progress while U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry visits...
View ArticleIn Support of Bob Dylan’s Super Bowl Commercial.
Some have viewed Bob Dylan's recent Super Bowl commercial for Chrysler as a sell-out. But there's more to it, namely a strong step in support of America's factory workers.Last night, I heard someone...
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