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Today's Editorial Cartoons:
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The Stranahan Video Lecture Series: 1 2 3
by Alan Tonelson, Thursday, May 02, 2013
The trade deficit decline revealed in the March figures shouldn't obscure a U.S. economy still hooked on debt, a Korea deal that has flopped, and an offbase Presidential export pledge that won't be kept.
Additional Opinion Articles
by Alan Tonelson, Friday, April 26, 2013
by Alan Tonelson, Friday, April 19, 2013
by Alan Tonelson, Wednesday, March 13, 2013
by Alan Tonelson, Thursday, March 07, 2013
by Alan Tonelson, Friday, February 22, 2013
Up to the Minute Commentary:
By One Measure, U.S. Manufacturing is Back in Recession

The raw data on American industrial production show that U.S.-based industry is suffering its second technical slump in a little over a year, and that its ballyhooed renaissance is further away than ever.

Closer to Recession than Renaissance

Today's industrial production data were a major embarrassment for President Obama and other manufacturing renaissance cheerleaders. They show that domestic industry could be headed for its second slump in just over a year.

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