by Dave Johnson | Jan 25, 2011 | Blog, Economy, Making it in America
Tonight, when President Obama gives his State of the Union address, he will be facing a nation that has millions of infrastructure jobs that need doing and millions of people out of work. The President is planning to address these two problems with a proposal to...
by Dave Johnson | Jan 24, 2011 | Blog
We all want to see the Senate start working again, and be more democratic. We have all lived through the breakdown of the Senate and the damage this has done to our democracy and the public's faith in government because of the abuse of the current rules. There is a...
by Dave Johnson | Jan 24, 2011 | Blog
Schemes and scams unravel, usually badly. China has been manipulating its currency, causing economic imbalances on a scale the world has rarely if ever before seen. The consequences are causing inflation problems inside China. One way or another this is going to...
by Dave Johnson | Jan 24, 2011 | Blog
A national industrial/economic policy is a plan by a government to promote the growth of key strategic industries or sectors in a country. Examples: China has been developing their manufacturing sector and is now the largest exporter. India spent decades building up...
by Dave Johnson | Jan 20, 2011 | Blog
In a column today, Hubris heading for a fall, George Will lays out his problem with America's system of decision-making by We, the People. The idea that America's problem of governance is one of inadequate resources misses this lesson of the last half-century: No...