Aside from the court-ordered dribbling out of Hillary Clinton’s classified-material-filled emails, the big presidential campaign news of the summer has been the boom for Donald Trump in the race for the Republican nomination. Trump has risen from 3 percent in the polls (when he announced on June 16) to where he now stands at 26 […]

Longtime Wal-Mart Stores supplier Ranir recently made a $3 million investment to expand its manufacturing facility in Grand Rapids, Mich. The expansion will allow the company to make an additional 5 million power toothbrush heads per year in Michigan instead of having the heads made in China. Ranir said the investment is part of Wal-Mart’s […]

Despite all the optimism around American attempts to forge free trade agreements with Asia and Europe, progress is in reality depressingly slow. The global, multilateral free-trade agenda has meanwhile been mired in apparently irreconcilable differences for more than a decade. It would nevertheless be wrong to regard these protectionist pressures as a prime cause of […]

The Reshoring Initiative recently announced a program in partnership with Walmart to help companies manufacture more consumer products in the United States.   Walmart has committed to increase its U.S. purchases by $50 billion annually by January 2023.  Harry Moser, founder and president of the Reshoring Initiative observed, “We were honored to […]