By Venkatesh Narayanamurti Los Angeles Times We all know the United States has a jobs crisis. President Obama further acknowledged it when he made manufacturing a top priority in this year’s State of the Union address. He has his eye set on fixing the tax code to keep jobs onshore, training young people to fill […]

My more inquisitive readers may know that I was invited to be an expert panelist at the IAGS Technology and Rare Earth Metals Center “TREM12” conference this month in Washington, D.C. I never miss a chance to show off my knowledge and feed my ego. I can’t recap the entire two-day knowledge fest but I’ll […]

In all this, though, there’s a worrisome undercurrent. The United States didn’t just suddenly find itself in this crisis. Our nation has worked long and hard to get here, after decades of so-called free markets while other nations tilted the playing field, of American jobs going offshore, of politicians, economic advisers and industrialists finding […]

WASHINGTON A coalition of executives, labor leaders and trade policy experts is calling on the Obama administration and the Presidential candidates to step up support for the revitalization of manufacturing in America to protect U.S. economic and national security interests and restore jobs. Saying that the decline in American manufacturing has resulted from government […]