Last fall, we pondered whether Apple could start building iPads and iPhones in the U.S. Our conclusion was, YES, Apple could indeed start assembling products in the U.S.
Some key points:
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Tremulous times in the world of U.S.
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An analysis of the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) from Alliance for American Manufacturing (AAM) Media Director Steven Capozzola...
I've talked with many domestic U.S. manufacturers over the past decade or so-- mostly small and mid-sized manufacturers (the backbone of America's industrial base).
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America’s defense supply chain put at risk by purchase of counterfeit, salvaged products from China. The U.S. Department of Defense has been buying counterfeit electronic parts from China. A Senate Armed Services Committee investigation led by Sens. Carl Levin (D-MI) and John McCain (R-AZ) has reviewed more than 100,000 pages of Defense Department documents along [...]
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If you want to field a good baseball team, you don’t just show up on opening day and say “Let’s play.” No, you carefully plan your team. You make sure to get the best pitchers (“pitching, pitching, pitching,” as they say). And you make sure your sluggers take a lot of batting practice. In short [...]
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New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman has long been a cheerleader for globalism, and has led the charge for “free trade.” One could say that his naive enthusiasm for the offshoring of U.S. manufacturing has contributed to lost manufacturing jobs in the U.S. as well as an expansion of overseas jobs in factories with abusive [...]
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The U.S. must address China’s deliberately undervalued currency. What few seem to understand is that we are already in a trade war with China. It’s not one that we launched, nor one that we wanted. But China’s undervaluation of its currency, which violates world trade rules, is part of a deliberate, well-coordinated strategy to undercut [...]
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Both the U.S. and Germany are high-wage economies with a substantial union workforce. However, Germany is an export powerhouse, while the U.S. runs massive annual trade deficits. Why is this the case? Washington Post columnist Harold Meyerson suggests that Germany offers lessons in how an advanced economy like the U.S. can compete globally and actually [...]
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Hey everyone: QUICK TRIVIA QUESTION: Where are iPads and iPhones manufactured?… Need we even tell you the answer? Aren’t all of you quite obviously aware that these omnipresent, hi-tech gizmos are “Made in China?” Brace yourself: In an interview on ABC This Week, Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) stated that iPads and iPhones are manufactured in [...]
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ABC World News has been running segments this week about the importance of buying American-made products. In addition to their reality-TV-style experiment of refurbishing a suburban Dallas home with only Made-in-USA goods, news anchor Diane Sawyer pointed out that if every American spent an extra $64 a year on buying American-made goods, it could create [...]
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