As we have written HERE – the U.S. has experienced “the longest stretch of employment gains in manufacturing in almost two decades”.  Even though the American economy is growing slowly … it is growing.  There have been many “green shoots” in the economy from housing to autos to manufacturing.  America has had to learn how [...]

“Large cuts in government spending will exert a strong drag on economic activity while large output gaps persist … tax cuts, particularly tax cuts for businesses and higher-income households, are highly inefficient at spurring growth.” ~EPI  It is important to understand what this study is saying here.  The economy is already going to add a certain # of [...]

“This is the first sustained increase we’ve seen in a long time.” ~Muir Macpherson, a Bloomberg Government economist   Most people do not realize that over 500,000 manufacturing jobs have been created in the U.S. since January of 2010.  If you look at the impact of manufacturing jobs during Bush’s administration … at no time did [...]

Despite Romney’s populist stance as willing to be “tough on China” – he has a long track record of being against tariffs. When thousands of American jobs were flooding overseas because of cheap Chinese tires …. President Obama took action and slapped tariffs on China. Romney criticized that idea in his book saying it was [...]

“A range of underlying changes are taking place in the US economy that will give a boost to manufacturing, even if some of this has yet to show up in the [production] data.” ~Hal Sirkin, a manufacturing expert at BCG  I realize most people are cynical about a possible manufacturing revival in America after all [...]

“It’s both shocking and shameful that Republicans today chose to kill a bill to put America’s veterans back to work.  At a time when one in four young veterans are unemployed.  Republicans should have been able, for just this once, to put aside the politics of obstruction and to help these men and women provide [...]

This is really significant news.  I know that it doesn’t feel like it but we are on the verge of a pretty big economic recovery if Congress doesn’t screw it up.  All of the stars are aligning for a recovery in the housing sector and once you add in the recent news by the FED [...]

Mitt Romney comes out with another ad that is of course incredibly dishonest.  Here is what you need to know about manufacturing in America: Now – Romney wants to include the hundreds of thousands of jobs lost from the Bush economic crisis and blame that on President Obama.  They have decided to use January 2009 [...]

These guys.  These f–ing guys.  Fox News is the most dishonest “news” outlet that exists in the entire world.  They are a 24-7 hour propaganda channel being run by one of Richard “I’m not a crook” Nixon’s former advisers; the apple doesn’t fall far from the tree.  This 2 minutes on air is a perfect [...]

Paul Krugman gets this information directly from the Federal Reserve and the FED gets this information directly from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.  You can see his comments HERE.  Let’s just call it what this is … under President Obama – the country has grown the private sector economy by significant bounds and even more [...]