How a once-intimate sign-off is feminizing the workplace, for better or worse
After years of offshore production, General Electric is moving much of its far-flung appliance-manufacturing operations back home. It is not alone. An exploration of the startling, sustainable, just-getting-started return of industry to the United States.
For decades, every trend in manufacturing favored the developing world and worked against the United States. But new tools that greatly speed up development from idea to finished product encourage start-up companies to locate here, not in Asia. Could global trade winds finally be blowing toward America again?
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Chicago Fed president Charles Evans has gone from dissenter to intellectual leader in just a year. The future of the recovery might be at stake
A smart parking system in San Francisco is touted as a model for reducing traffic congestion and greenhouse gas emissions.
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From the U.S. to Europe, the stewards of monetary policy are tending to the financial system with greater nimbleness, creativity and maturity than their political counterparts or any other societal actor
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If battered industrial unions learn to convince skeptical workers of their value, it might help them rebuild.
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The liberal nightmare about the cliff is overwrought, since the Fed has the power to avert it. If Bernanke acts properly, Congress could cut spending deeply without risking a recession.
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An annotated guide to the most important economic trend of our time
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Hong Kong's sky-high real estate prices are set for a correction, which could have serious ramifications for banks, jobs, and social unrest in the Chinese territory, the IMF warned today.
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Unemployment looks normal for everyone except those out of work for six months or longer. If we don't act soon, the long-term unemployed will become unemployable
Classic Cold War propaganda, Make Mine Freedom promotes free enterprise as the secret to American prosperity.
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Expect him to devise an around-the-clock equivalent of the Today show, with substantial segments of soft "news you can use" and entertainment blended with the news of the day
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The economic benefits could be enormous -- but so could the political challenge.
Attention publishers: For all the attention given to "bold rich multi-media experiences," young mobile news readers still prefer stories the way their great-great-grandfathers did: In columns of text.
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Give Texas A&M credit: Even in the money-saturated world of big-time college sports, the school has managed to find a new way to spend on its…
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A single mandate for nominal GDP, instead of inflation, could help the Fed save the economy
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Housing is recovering but housing jobs are not.
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Fixing Health Care
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The Year in Review
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James Fallows explains why the future of industry is in America, Jeffrey Goldberg makes the case for more guns, Ann Patchett describes her battle with Amazon, Isaac Chotiner laments Salman Rushdie's decline, and more
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