by Dave Johnson | May 3, 2013 | Uncategorized
President Obama set a goal of 1 million new manufacturing jobs in his second term. Last month we added zero. Not one. Nada. Zip. We did add low-wage jobs, though. Maybe we can talk about a national manufacturing strategy now? A Million Manufacturing Jobs? In the 2012...
by Dave Johnson | May 2, 2013 | Uncategorized
Republicans continually drone on about how "government spending" is so bad... Infrastructure, medical research, education, law enforcement... bad ... "out of control" ... "take money out of the economy" ... etc. And so because we have to do something about "out of...
by Dave Johnson | May 2, 2013 | Uncategorized
The trade deficit fell to "only" $38.8 billion in March. This could mean that manufacturing is starting to shift from China (good) -- or it could mean our economy is slowing and we just aren't buying as much as we would have (not so good). It is also because we are...
by Dave Johnson | May 1, 2013 | Blog
The CEO of a big company makes 1795 times what its clerks are making, and the company is now in trouble. Does it matter which company, when so many other companies are in a similar situation? There is a three-year-old law that requires companies to disclose to...
by Dave Johnson | Apr 30, 2013 | Uncategorized
"Duty evasion" is when foreign competitors undermine American producers using fraudulent schemes to avoid paying the duties they owe. The foreign companies get a competitive advantage from lower prices that come from avoiding duties imposed for "dumping" by selling...
