by Dave Johnson | Nov 17, 2011 | Blog
Bear with me here, this gets interesting ... and a bit scary. The 2011 REPORT TO CONGRESS of the U.S.-CHINA ECONOMIC AND SECURITY REVIEW COMMISSION has been released. From the press release: The report covers the U.S.-China economic relationship, including the impact...
by Dave Johnson | Nov 15, 2011 | Blog
A while back I was writing about the Republican threat of a government-wide shutdown, and the two-week Federal Aviation Administration shutdown (and Delta Airlines' anti-union role in that). The shutdown threat was used to force the government to give even more favors...
by Dave Johnson | Nov 14, 2011 | Blog
When Egyptians stood up to Mubarak they were met with tear gas and clubs. Once upon a time America had freedom of assembly, speech and protest. Even now, as long as protests don't take on the 1%, they are OK. But in today's America-for-the-1% protests, assemblies and...
by Dave Johnson | Nov 13, 2011 | Blog
Ten years ago we were on a path to paying off the country's debt. In fact, if we had stayed on the same trajectory the debt might be paid off already. But then we cut taxes even more, and raised the military budget even more, and the deficits and resulting debt...
by Dave Johnson | Nov 13, 2011 | Blog
If you paint black roofs white you save a lot on energy use, and you create some jobs. So how come something as simple as this is so hard to get going? I'm at the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) - America. CGI is about a "process" of bringing attendees together to get...
