Abe SauerNovember 7, 2012 During the now concluded contentious presidential election, the subject of manufacturing — specifically, the geological location of it — was a major topic of battle. One story to come out of all of the China-stealing-US-jobs talk was “reshoring,” or the common declaration of “the return of manufacturing.” Maybe because of its […]
Emanuella GrinbergNovember 5, 2012 (CNN) — They could’ve gone shopping much closer to home. Instead, Tomo Adachi and Lauren Kennedy packed up the car, drove six hours from Columbus, Ohio, to Chicago, got a hotel and made a weekend of it. This wasn’t your typical outlet mall excursion or antiquing […]
Paul M. BarrettNovember 01, 2012 Yes, yes, it’s unsophisticated to blame any given storm on climate change. Men and women in white lab coats tell us—and they’re right—that many factors contribute to each severe weather episode. Climate deniers exploit scientific complexity to avoid any discussion at all.Clarity, however, is […]
By: Devvy October 27, 2012 NewsWithViews.com “He, therefore, who is now against domestic manufacture, must be for reducing us either to dependence on that foreign nation, or to be clothed in skins, and to live like wild beasts in dens and caverns. I am not one of these; experience has taught me that manufactures are […]
Nedra RhoneOctober 23, 2012 There’s a 2001 Chevy Suburban parked in Melissia Perry’s garage. Next to that is a ’68 Ford Mustang. Inside her Woodstock, Ga., home are fully functional radios and televisions from the 1940s. Perry, 44, sometimes uses her great-grandmother’s crochet hooks to make crafts and her […]
October 26, 2012 The US economy grew more than expected in the three months to September, official figures showed. The world’s largest economy expanded at an annualised rate of 2% in the third quarter, the Commerce Department said.The jump was partly due to a large increase in government spending.The figures are the one of the last […]
DAVID BARBOZAOctober 25, 2012 BEIJING — The mother of China’s prime minister was a schoolteacher in northern China. His father was ordered to tend pigs in one of Mao’s political campaigns. And during childhood, “my family was extremely poor,” the prime minister, Wen Jiabao, said in a speech last year. But […]
A Chinese man adjusts the Chinese flag before a point press conference by Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi and US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on Sept. 5, 2012. (Feng Li / AFP / Getty Images) Melinda Liu Oct 24, 2012 Chinese leaders […]
AP | By CHRISTOPHER S. RUGABER 10/26/2012 WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. economy expanded at a slightly faster 2 percent annual rate from July through September, buoyed by an uptick in consumer spending and a burst of government spending. The Commerce Department says growth improved from the 1.3 percent rate in the […]
Nedra RhoneOctober, 2012 If you’re of a certain age, you probably remember seeing this on television: The commercial is from 1978 , but it sounds like many conversations happening today. For several decades, “made in the U.S.A.” — a label once proudly imprinted on everything from apparel to cars […]
