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Alan Tonelson, 5/8/2012
A recent visit to Monticello reveals a surprise about the third president's business career -- and a sad 21st century reality at the gift shop.
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Alan Tonelson, 4/9/2012
Resurgent employment creation in health care and other heavily subsidized industries leaves the real private sector looking pretty sickly.
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4/5/2012
A Washington Post Outlook article recently claimed major successes for a fair trade program aimed at pushing Apple and other outsourcers to improve third world working conditions. But two months ago, supposed beneficiaries of this program were literally fainting from overwork and malnutrition.
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Alan Tonelson, 3/14/2012
American industries massively subsidized by government outperformed on the job-creation front in February, Washington recently reported. That means that genuinely private sector industries underperformed -- which can't be good for real economic recovery.
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Alan Tonelson, 2/3/2012
The kind of stimulus-juiced job creation revealed in this morning's January employment report is certainly better than stimulus-juiced job stagnation. But whether it can last remains open to real doubt
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Alan Tonelson, 1/27/2012
The first full-year 2011 U.S. GDP numbers are in, and they reveal an economy not only recovering even more slowly than thought, but one painfully far from being "built to last."
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Alan Tonelson, 1/24/2012
The recovery is feeble. Voter job and living standards anxieties continue. And the presidential campaign is intensifying. Yet most of America's national leaders still don't recognize the vital links between failed trade policies and a still-failing economy.
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Alan Tonelson, 1/17/2012
Why Americans should cheer the withdrawal of President Obama's former ambassador to China from the Republican presidential race.
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Alan Tonelson, 1/6/2012
The good news in the latest employment data: The economy's dependence on job gains in heavily subsidized private sector industries dipped once again. The bad news: Barely one in five total jobs destroyed during the recession have been recreated.
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Alan Tonelson, 12/23/2011
Washington has just told us once again that, when engines of unhealthy growth like spending and housing falter, the U.S. economy slows to a near-standstill.
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Alan Tonelson, 12/18/2011
After all the reporting she's done on the importance of reviving domestic manufacturing, why did ABC News' Diane Sawyer completely ignore the issue while moderating a recent Republican candidates' debate?
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Alan Tonelson, 12/13/2011
Commerce Department chief John Bryson urgently needs to get his trade figures straight -- especially since President Obama has just named him co-policy czar of the heavily traded manufacturing sector.
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Alan Tonelson, 12/8/2011
The best way to strengthen the U.S. manufacturing base is not by offering massive government handouts that an indebted America can't afford. Instead, foreign-based as well as domestic suppliers to the U.S. market should be required to pay their share of the costs of our nation's upkeep.
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Alan Tonelson, 12/2/2011
New November data show that employment gains took a relative breather in that part of the private sector dependent on public sector spending. But by any measure, the gains registered in areas like health care services remain too big to herald a real recovery.
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11/6/2011
Despite cuts in government payrolls, more and more of America's job creation depends on borrowed public sector money.
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Alan Tonelson, 11/3/2011
The White House sweeps the trade deals under the rug, The Wall Street Journal blames America for World War II, reshoring gets more Happy Talk coverage, and the European Union is as popular as ever.
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Alan Tonelson, 10/27/2011
The consumption-led growth revealed in this morning's GDP figures represents more unhealthy growth and an economy still dangerously dependent on debt-creation for even meager signs of life.
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Alan Tonelson, 10/14/2011
Anyone who stuck with this week's economy-focused Republican presidential forum would have learned much about the contenders' views -- and hopefully will demand to know much more still.
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Alan Tonelson, 10/3/2011
Whether it's enacted into law or not, the anti-currency manipulation bill coming before the Senate has already usefully broadened the nation's economic recovery debate.
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Alan Tonelson, 9/6/2011
The disastrous August jobs report showed that an 18-month string of job creation in the non-subsidized private sector has been snapped. Still unbroken, however -- our major political leaders' much longer string of brain-dead trade policy proposals.
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