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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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Alan Tonelson, 8/10/2009
More Canadian trade hypocrisy -- and more American enabling; are we running out of workers to fire? and a better definition of economic recovery
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Alan Tonelson, 8/3/2009
Greenspan returns, the need for new experts, climate change and crystal balls, Cash for Imports, and an awfully jittery superpower.
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Alan Tonelson, 8/1/2009
America's denial-gripped establishment disagrees, but there's only one realistic way to interpret the latest official GDP numbers: Washington keeps injecting more juice into the U.S. economy and it's finally twitching.
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Alan Tonelson, 7/24/2009
With friends like Washington Post columnist Michael Gerson and think tank mainstay Kimberly Ann Elliott, developing countries don't need enemies.
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Alan Tonelson, 7/16/2009
Only in post-bubble America could double-digit yearly declines in industrial production be touted as the new "good."
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Alan Tonelson, 7/5/2009
The more President Obama's top aides said last week about the dreadful June jobs report, the more it seemed that his administration has no recovery strategy worthy of the name.
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Alan Tonelson, 6/30/2009
CAFTA's bitter fruits, still more Canadian trade hypocrisy, how we can really end the housing crisis, and four cheers for plain vanilla finance.
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Pundits and pandemics continued, more taxpayer- financed offshoring by GM, and sub-Saharan African fairytales.
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