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Is President Obama a Mercantilist?
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January 27, 2012
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Promise in American Manufacturing?
International Business Times
January 27, 2012
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How Many Manufacturing Jobs Can U.S. Realistically Maintain?
PBS
January 27, 2012
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Factory Jobs Obama Wants Are Unlikely to Return in Large Numbers
Business Week
January 26, 2012
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Obama begins swing-state tour with push for manufacturing jobs
Washington Post
January 25, 2012
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Wagner Act = Outsourcing?
Daily Caller
January 25, 2012
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Growth Slows but Trade Deficit Surges
by Alan Tonelson, Saturday, January 14, 2012
The U.S. trade deficit jumped more than 10 percent in November, and the 11-month total for slow-growing 2011 has already topped the full-year total for faster-growing 2010. Let's not overlook the new monthly record shortfall for high tech trade, either.
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Obama Focuses on 'Insourcing' Jobs
Tuesday, January 10, 2012
Under-Appreciated Lowlights of 2011
by Alan Tonelson, Monday, January 02, 2012
USBIC Backs Rep. Mo Brooks: Let's Vote on the Currency Manipulation Bill
by Kevin L. Kearns and Alan Tonelson, Wednesday, December 21, 2011
A Lower Trade Deficit That Should Encourage No One
by Alan Tonelson, Friday, December 09, 2011
Many Adults Leave Labor Force Dropping Unemployment Rate to 8.6 Percent
Friday, December 02, 2011
Up to the Minute Commentary:
An Economy Still "Built to Bubble-ize"

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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Trade Policy Connection Missing in Action

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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Obama's Insourcing Fantasies
by Alan Tonelson, 1/20/2012
Geithner's Cockeyed Definition of "Strong" and "Cooperative"
by Alan Tonelson, 1/12/2012
The Washington Post's Newest Trade Pundit-iot
by Alan Tonelson, 12/29/2011
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NAM Fears Obama Insourcing Plans Will Succeed
by Alan Tonelson, 1/26/2012
Obama's China Panel Smacks of More White House Fakery
by Alan Tonelson, 1/11/2012
Trade Rep Kirk Stays Behind the Curve on China
by Alan Tonelson, 12/22/2011
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