by Dave Johnson | May 24, 2010 | Blog, Making it in America
Today I was able to conduct a short webcam interview with Scott Paul, Executive Director of the Alliance for American Manufacturing. The occasion is this week's Us-China Strategic and Economic Dialog taking place in Beijing. This dialog is a series of meetings between...
by Dave Johnson | May 24, 2010 | Blog
Are you still unemployed? Obviously it is because you are lazy. At least, many members of Congress think so, anyway. And besides, cutting the deficit -- caused by tax cuts for the rich and massive military spending increases -- is much more important than paychecks...
by Dave Johnson | May 21, 2010 | Blog, Economy
On the one side there are millions of people needing jobs and millions more "underemployed," the economy is still mired in a very, very slow recovery that is a recovery only in the technical sense, an increasing wave of foreclosures that has reached into the "prime"...
by Dave Johnson | May 21, 2010 | Blog, Economy
In March I wrote about the closing of the Toyota NUMMI plant in Fremont, California.. Today there is good news! The Green Manufacturing Revolution comes to the rescue, and Toyota is teaming up with electric car maker Tesla to reopen the plant and make all-electric...
by Dave Johnson | May 20, 2010 | Blog
Monday the U.S.-China Strategic and Economic Dialogue (S&ED) begins in Beijing. (See the Treasury Dept fact sheet on the S&ED.) Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner will attend, and meet with their counterparts. As I have been writing...
