by Leo Gerard | Jul 8, 2014 | Blog, Jobs and Growth
Americans devoted Friday to celebrating independence. Flags and fireworks, picnics and pledges of allegiance abounded. But there's no liberty and justice for all if Americans aren't economically independent. Low wages, debts and dim prospects all subjugate. This is...
by Leo Gerard | Jul 1, 2014 | Blog, Trade
In the depth of the recession, some foreign countries made a simple calculation. They’d subsidize their steel industries even though that violates international trade rules. It paid off by keeping their citizens employed, paid and fed. These countries banked on...
by Leo Gerard | Jun 17, 2014 | Blog, Democracy
Ketchup king H.J. Heinz Co. announced last week that it's working with Ford to convert tomato waste into auto parts. Now that's an innovative Fusion! In addition, it is further proof that Americans can do anything. They sent a man to the moon and a rover to Mars. They...
by Leo Gerard | Jun 10, 2014 | Blog
A dozen North Carolinians had the brazen idea that, as American citizens, they could exercise their right to express their concerns to one of their elected representatives, Thom Tillis, who is the general assembly’s Speaker of the House. They waited patiently...
by Leo Gerard | Jun 3, 2014 | Blog, Jobs and Growth
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce threw a little hissy fit last week, stomping its Gucci-shod feet over a new rule requiring corporations to report the difference in pay between their median workers and their CEOs. As usual, the navel-gazing Chamber got it all wrong. The...
