Posts Tagged 'global commerce'

Made in America Panel Proposes that Only New Leadership Will Ensure that American Exports Continue to Create American Jobs

Made in America Panel Proposes that Only New Leadership Will Ensure that American Exports Continue to Create American Jobs

Neal Asbury opened his nationally syndicated “Neal Asbury’s Made in America” show on Radio America by relating that as a Buckeye, born in Ohio, he is amazed that the election could come down to the voting in Ohio. He hoped that his family members and others are turned off enough by Obama and Biden’s arrogance on the campaign trail to vote for Romney.

Joining the show as a first time guest was Republican Congressman, Steve Chabot, who serves Ohio’s First Congressional ...

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Ugly Campaign Battle Over Outsourcing Isn’t All Bad

Ugly Campaign Battle Over Outsourcing Isn’t All Bad

The Obama and Romney campaigns are slinging mud at each other over outsourcing jobs. What most people would think is just an ugly brawl of a typical campaign battle; I consider it a positive development when the national dialogue turns to keeping jobs in America.

Preventing the outsourcing of U.S. jobs must be an issue that is seriously debated by the presidential candidates. Whether or not Mitt Romney created jobs or outsourced jobs while at Bain Capital is irrelevant. The issue ...

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When Patents Are Stolen, So Are American Jobs

When Patents Are Stolen, So Are American Jobs

Ideas build nations. Great minds fueled the economies of nations as far back as the ancient Egyptians. Yet, after only a bit more than 200 years, America has become the world’s innovation leader.

Small and medium-sized American companies generate the overwhelming percentage of this creativity, filing 13 more patents per employee than large corporations do.

Meanwhile, the core copyright industries alone (not including the broader sector) lead all major industry sectors in U.S. exports and have grown three times faster than the ...

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Welcome to the Department of Global Commerce

Welcome to the Department of Global Commerce

Last week, President Barack Obama asked Congress for authority to close the Commerce Department and create a new export agency.

Obama wants to put the office of the United States Trade Representative (USTR), the U.S. Export-Import Bank (EXIM), Overseas Private Investment Corp (OPIC), the Trade and Development Agency (TDA), the Small Business Administration (SBA) and parts of the Commerce Department under a new roof — something that has been kicked around for years.

As I point out in my book “Conscientious Equity,” ...

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