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Alan Tonelson, 2/19/2010
The GAO and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce are complaining that the Obama stimulus package's Buy American requirements are doing the economy more harm than good. Too bad neither set of complaints passes the baloney test.
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Alan Tonelson, 2/8/2010
President Obama's State of the Union goal of doubling U.S. exports in five years ignores the biggest realities about U.S. trade flows and the global economy. Be very, very skeptical.
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Alan Tonelson, 12/11/2009
A major "Chicago school" economist is calling for tariffs to fight China's currency manipulation. Why are President Obama and Congress' Democratic leadership still stalling?
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Kevin L. Kearns, 12/7/2009
The call for more education without massive trade policy reform is just another rhetorical trick. And since it takes a full generation to really make a widespread dent in the "education deficit," the trade defict will have sucked most decent paying work out of the country in the meantime. More education is not the singular solution it's cracked up to be; in fact, it's a political wolf ticket.
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Kevin L. Kearns, 12/5/2009
This week's jobs summit was a political stunt, designed to deflect criticism from an administration run by pols and economists who have never created a job or met a payroll in their entire lives.
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Alan Tonelson, 11/10/2009
The latest sign of the apocalypse -- the New York Times is arguing that government-created stimulus employment will be reliable employment.
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Alan Tonelson, 10/28/2009
Pundits and pandemics continued, more taxpayer- financed offshoring by GM, and sub-Saharan African fairytales.
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Alan Tonelson, 10/27/2009
A major regional economist warns against pushing China too hard on the currency front. Say what?
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Alan Tonelson, 10/23/2009
Moral equivalence from USTR Ron Kirk, the Wal-Mart-izing of America continues, a nation of lobbyists, and the non-profit road to global competitiveness.
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Alan Tonelson, 10/21/2009
Last spring, uber-columnist Fareed Zakaria confidently wrote that both the swine flu and the economic crisis were being hyped by the same kinds of professional cassandras. Today, this argument looks like professional polyannism.
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Alan Tonelson, 10/20/2009
American taxpayers are about to start subsidizing the purchase of home appliances that are not only imported, but that feature completely unjustified Energy Star labels.
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Alan Tonelson, 10/14/2009
The multilateral IMF shows more backbone than America's president, illegal immigration's trade spigots are still on on, the real options for fighting currency manipulation, and a comeback for bubble-era mortgage shenanigans.
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Alan Tonelson, 10/7/2009
It's not enough for multinational companies and their Washington reps to seek every opportunity to weaken companies determined to make their products in America. They need to impugn their integrity, too.
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Alan Tonelson, 10/6/2009
Why couldn't the program's Congressional sponsors, or most of the Big Media?
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Alan Tonelson, 10/2/2009
The government's September jobs report is even worse than generally reported. It shows that jobs outside the public sector keep heading towards endangered species status.
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Alan Tonelson, 10/1/2009
Joblessness is up and spending is rising much faster than incomes, according to new government figures. Hasn't one historically unprecedented debt crisis been enough?
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Alan Tonelson, 9/29/2009
What a shame that time constraints usually prevent TV interview segments -- like today's on China trade on CNBC -- from examining subjects in depth. Luckily, the web will enable AmericanEconomicAlert to fill the gaps, starting today.
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Alan Tonelson, 9/11/2009
Much more important than Rep. Joe Wilson's impertinence during President Obama's health care speech is the fact that he was right about the illegal alien issue.
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Alan Tonelson, 9/9/2009
Obviously America's manufacturing workforce should be continually retrained and re-skilled -- as countless manufacturers and observers have preached, and as some Obama stimulus programs are trying to promote. But retraining alone is no cure-all for what ails domestic industry or the broader economy.
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Alan Tonelson, 8/17/2009
However entertaining, a recent CNBC segment provides one of those "I fear for my country" moments.
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