Gov. Mike Beebe along with economic development officials from around Arkansas plan to attend a Wal-Mart organized manufacturing summit later this month that is part of the retailer’s effort to buy at least $50 billion in U.S. made products during the next 10 years. The event, labeled by Bentonville-based Wal-Mart as the U.S. Manufacturing Summit, […]
August 2013
Gov. Mike Beebe along with economic development officials from around Arkansas plan to attend a Wal-Mart organized manufacturing summit later this month that is part of the retailer’s effort to buy at least $50 billion in U.S. made products during the next 10 years. The event, labeled by Bentonville-based Wal-Mart as the U.S. Manufacturing Summit, […]
The BTN tour has made six stops already, with one being at Michigan State. Here is a nice photo gallery of Spartans fall camp from MLive.com. This is an impressive looking team that may be getting overlooked. As for the Spartans offense, quarterback Connor Cook says the sky is the limit. I agree. I have […]
Shimla: Mounting accumulated debt burden, galloping state salaries bill, as Himachal Pradesh continues to live beyond its means has been pushed to seek higher devolution from the 14th Finance Commission as the state presented a case for Rs 12,466 Cr as special grants here today in order to bail it out from fiscal distress. Presenting […]
Harry Moser, founder of the Reshoring Initiative – and a featured speaker at our upcoming conference, Commodity/PROcurement EDGE – is arguably one of industry’s leading voices in reshoring intelligence. We caught up with him recently to give you a taste of what he’ll be covering in October. MetalMiner: What are the key developments, if any, […]
Offshoring has been a controversial issue spurring heated debates within the electronics manufacturing service (EMS) market, for a long time. While some reports suggests the trend is still growing; changing economic, political and legislative pressures both overseas and in the UK have seen the industry experience a period of return to onshoring. For the last […]
The rupee shed 10 paise to open at 61.39 against the previous close of 61.29 on the back of weakness in domestic equity market and high dollar demand from importers. The rupee journeyed southwards after Finance Minister, P. Chidambaram, told Parliament on Monday that he will keep the current account deficit at 3.7 per cent […]
The rupee was trading lower at 61.43 against the dollar in intra-day trade as markets remained largely unimpressed by Finance Minister’s assurance that he will keep the current account deficit lower at 3.7 per cent of the gross domestic product in the current fiscal. P.Chidambaram on Monday told Parliament that he will restrict the current […]
Text smaller Text bigger One member of Congress believes there are enough votes in the House to impeach President Obama, but he says such an effort might damage the country because of the Democratic Party grip on the Senate. A House impeachment vote would mean nothing without a conviction in the Senate, points out Rep. […]
Email to a friend Permalink Monday, August 12, 2013 Aaron M. Renn, GoLocalWorcester MINDSETTER™ Among post-industrial cities in America, one of the things I observe is a sort of malaise in the civic character. Many of these places have been beaten down so hard for so long that a sort of defeatist attitude has set […]
