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U.S. Free Trade Deals – Unnecessary Delay?
The House Ways & Means Committee is considering three Free Trade Agreements: Colombia, Panama, and South Korea. The International Trade Commission estimates that these three agreements will increase our exports by $13 billion, creating 250,000 jobs within our borders. However, The White House has indicated that it will not submit...
Saving the Common Light Bulb
A law enacted in 2007 is shipping American jobs to China. The reason? A de facto ban on incandescent light bulbs. The Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007, under Subtitle B of Title III, has functionally banned all incandescent bulbs in the United States by 2014 by setting energy...
Unemployment Likely Headed Higher
Forbes reports that the Department of Labor will release the August employment report Friday morning, and according to one respected analyst, the news is likely to be bad: How’s this for a way to kick off the Labor Day Weekend: Hurricane Earl is uprooting many Easterners’ holiday plans, and Friday’s...
Intel CEO Otellini: DC “Does Not Understand What it Take to Create Jobs”
This is a stunning indictment from the leader of one of America’s most successful technology companies: Unless government policies are altered, he predicted, “the next big thing will not be invented here. Jobs will not be created here.” The U.S. legal environment has become so hostile to business, Otellini said,...
Intel CEO Otellini: DC "Does Not Understand What it Take to Create Jobs"
This is a stunning indictment from the leader of one of America’s most successful technology companies: Unless government policies are altered, he predicted, “the next big thing will not be invented here. Jobs will not be created here.” The U.S. legal environment has become so hostile to business, Otellini said,...
Unwelcome Milestone: Private-Sector Pay Reaches All-Time Low
President Obama likes to tell us that the economy is growing again. At a recent speech in Buffalo, he said “we are heading in the right direction. Those tough steps we took – they’re working… The question now is, how do we keep the momentum going?” But according to USA Today,...