Reposted from Manufacturing & Technology News ******* Two California Companies Are Forced To Manufacture Their Products In China Judy Peterson | December 30, 2011 | Los Gatos Weekly-Times This is a story about two little Los Gatos, Calif., companies that were producing products in the United States, only to find…

Reposted from the American Jobs Alliance blog ****** Red wolf in green clothes: ‘All-American’ electric car is really Made in China China’s arms dealers are attacking the US auto market with an electric car they’re calling ‘All American.’  Nothing could be further from the truth – and Washington insiders are…

I posted, two days ago, a paper by Greg Tassey of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) which argued that macro-economic stabilization (monetary and fiscal policy) alone won’t get the U.S. growing.  Rather a focused strategy on investing in productive assets is needed. CPA Senior Economist Ian Fletcher…

Without a national strategy to produce more of what we consume, the U.S. cannot recover. Greg Tassey is Senior Economist at the NIST (National Institute of Standards and Technology).  NIST is one of the few federal agencies focusing upon improving U.S. industry directly.  The Manufacturing Extension Partnership, agricultural Cooperative Extension,…

Jeffrey Immelt has zero credibility as the head of Obama’s Council on Jobs and Competitiveness.  The CEO and Chairman of GE is moving its GE Healthcare division from Waukesha, WI to Beijing. This is a transfer of jobs and of technology.  The interests of GE are not the interests of…

Keith Bradsher of the NY Times reports on China economic issues.  Usually doing a decent job, but not great. He has pointed out the many, many state managed capitalism subsidies by China as they try to predatory price their national champion companies/industries into other markets. But today, Bradsher misguidedly escalates…

U.S. based solar companies filed an ITC complaint against China’s massive subsidies which are designed to predatory price all other countries’ solar industries out of business.  Solar may be a small part of the energy picture, but many of the technologies involved with making it are advanced and cross cutting……

Must be their low labor costs, the reason always, always attributed by mainstream reporters. Intel and AMD could help in the fight against state capitalism and global instability due to trade deficits.  But they do not.  Because they are transnationals with no more allegiance to the country that hatched them….

This article originally appeared in Manufacturing and Technology News (subscribe here).  The article rebuts claims made in the media that **** News Analysis: ‘Made In The World’ Data Initiative Is A Made-Up Hoax By Charles McMillion, MGB Information Services | M&T News | October 21, 2011 Even in this awful…

So here’s the narrative from the Chinese Ministry of Finance, the Wall Street Journal editorial page, the U.S. financial industry. 1.  When China engages in a comprehensive mercantilism strategy to strategically target U.S. industries and take them out, that is ok.  A little distasteful but just growing pains. 2.  When…