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Alan Tonelson, 1/27/2012
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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Alan Tonelson, 1/24/2012
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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Alan Tonelson, 1/17/2012
Why Americans should cheer the withdrawal of President Obama's former ambassador to China from the Republican presidential race.
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Alan Tonelson, 1/6/2012
The good news in the latest employment data: The economy's dependence on job gains in heavily subsidized private sector industries dipped once again. The bad news: Barely one in five total jobs destroyed during the recession have been recreated.
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Alan Tonelson, 12/23/2011
Washington has just told us once again that, when engines of unhealthy growth like spending and housing falter, the U.S. economy slows to a near-standstill.
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Alan Tonelson, 12/18/2011
After all the reporting she's done on the importance of reviving domestic manufacturing, why did ABC News' Diane Sawyer completely ignore the issue while moderating a recent Republican candidates' debate?
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Alan Tonelson, 12/13/2011
Commerce Department chief John Bryson urgently needs to get his trade figures straight -- especially since President Obama has just named him co-policy czar of the heavily traded manufacturing sector.
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Alan Tonelson, 12/8/2011
The best way to strengthen the U.S. manufacturing base is not by offering massive government handouts that an indebted America can't afford. Instead, foreign-based as well as domestic suppliers to the U.S. market should be required to pay their share of the costs of our nation's upkeep.
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Alan Tonelson, 12/2/2011
New November data show that employment gains took a relative breather in that part of the private sector dependent on public sector spending. But by any measure, the gains registered in areas like health care services remain too big to herald a real recovery.
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11/6/2011
Despite cuts in government payrolls, more and more of America's job creation depends on borrowed public sector money.
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Alan Tonelson, 11/3/2011
The White House sweeps the trade deals under the rug, The Wall Street Journal blames America for World War II, reshoring gets more Happy Talk coverage, and the European Union is as popular as ever.
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Alan Tonelson, 10/27/2011
The consumption-led growth revealed in this morning's GDP figures represents more unhealthy growth and an economy still dangerously dependent on debt-creation for even meager signs of life.
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Alan Tonelson, 10/14/2011
Anyone who stuck with this week's economy-focused Republican presidential forum would have learned much about the contenders' views -- and hopefully will demand to know much more still.
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Alan Tonelson, 10/3/2011
Whether it's enacted into law or not, the anti-currency manipulation bill coming before the Senate has already usefully broadened the nation's economic recovery debate.
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Alan Tonelson, 9/6/2011
The disastrous August jobs report showed that an 18-month string of job creation in the non-subsidized private sector has been snapped. Still unbroken, however -- our major political leaders' much longer string of brain-dead trade policy proposals.
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9/2/2011
That was some Labor Day gift Washington delivered to the public today -- an American job creation machine at an absolute standstill, and actually back in reverse if the private sector is definied realistically.
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Alan Tonelson, 8/5/2011
The new government jobs report makes all too clear that not only is the nation's employment situation still miserable, but that job-creation in heavily subsidized parts of the economy still dominates so-called private sector job creation
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Alan Tonelson, 8/1/2011
Last week's revised economic growth figures show that the economy was actually slightly less dependent on consumption and housing than originally thought. Unfortunately, the anemic recovery turns out to be slightly more dependent on these false growth engines.
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Alan Tonelson, 7/25/2011
It's bad enough that the Washington Post's editorial writers and op-ed page are hopelessly outsourcing-happy. Now the paper's letters page -- supposedly a faithful sounding board for public opinion -- is looking just as biased.
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Alan Tonelson, 7/19/2011
The latest media paean to GE CEO and Obama job-creation guru Jeff Immelt shows again how just how badly journalists play their economic policy watchdog role -- especially when it comes to trade and globalization.
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The kind of stimulus-juiced job creation revealed in this morning's January employment report is certainly better than stimulus-juiced job stagnation. But whether it can last remains open to real doubt
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