By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Published: July 3, 2012 WASHINGTON (AP) — Companies placed more orders with American factories in May from April, demanding more computers, machinery and other equipment that signal investment plans. Factory orders increased 0.7 percent in May from April, the Commerce Department said Tuesday. The increase is a welcome sign after two […]
By David J. Lynch on July 05, 2012 This spring, President Obama said he had “good news” to report: Lost American jobs are returning to the U.S. “For a lot of businesses,” the president told a crowd in Albany, N.Y., on May 8, “it’s now starting to make sense to bring jobs back home.” […]
July 5, 2012 Washington, D.C. – United States Trade Representative Ron Kirk announced today that the United States is challenging China’s imposition of antidumping and countervailing duties on more than $3 billion in exports of American-produced automobiles. Specifically, the United States has requested dispute settlement consultations with China at the World Trade […]
By Garrett Tenney for FOXBusiness Published July 04, 2012 Emily Waldon was only six-years-old when 9/11 happened, but the patriotism she felt after that event has grown into a thriving business. “It really hit home for me, even though I was just a six-year-old. I was like, ‘Daddy let’s show them that we’re Americans,’ ” said […]
By CHRISTOPHER S. RUGABER, APMon Jul 2, 9:05 PM UTC U.S. manufacturing shrank in June for the first time in nearly three years, adding to signs that economic growth is weakening.Production and exports declined, and the number of new orders plunged, according to a monthly report released Monday by the Institute […]
By Richard Simon for the Los Angeles TimesJuly 3, 2012 WASHINGTON — Should U.S. flags that fly from federal buildings be made entirely in the U.S.A.? So ask sponsors of the All-American Flag Act, introduced in response to the $3.6 million in imports of U.S. flags, mostly from China.The bill’s sponsors picked the […]
By JOHN MARKOFFPublished: June 28, 2012 SAN JOSE, Calif. – Etched into the base of Google’s new wireless home media player that was introduced on Wednesday is its most intriguing feature. On the underside of the Nexus Q is a simple inscription: “Designed and Manufactured in the U.S.A.”The Google executives and […]
By: Elizabeth Alterman | Special to CNBC.com Manufacturing may be poised for a quantum leap that will rival the transformation that took place nearly 100 years ago when Henry Ford revolutionized industry with the creation of the assembly line, say industry experts. In fact, President Barack Obama has made […]
EMPLOYMENT SPECTATOR Editorial StaffJim Vassallo | Chelsei HendersonEmployment Spectator202 S Lake Ave, Unit 250Pasadena, CA 91101 Many manufacturing businesses in the US where wiped out, by low-cost imports from Asia, especially China. Many other companies moved their production from US to China. The manufacturing employment was reduced by about 6 […]
By David Bakke | Investopedia – Fri, Feb 17, 2012 @YahooFinance on Twitter, become a fan on Facebook There are many ways to save money on groceries, such as clipping coupons or buying generic brands in lieu of name brands. However, another way to cut costs is to skip the supermarket altogether to purchase locally grown food. Often, the food […]
Chesapeake Bay Candle’s U.S. factory in Glen Burnie, Maryland. By: Chris Morris, Special to CNBC.com Published: Wednesday, 23 May 2012 Chesapeake Bay Candle never thought twice about offshoring its manufacturing when the company started 17 years ago. To make the product it wanted, each candle had to be handmade, and there was no cost effective way to […]
Bottles of Razor Wit Belgian Style White Ale on a conveyor belt at Highland Brewing. The Brewers Association defines craft beer as that made by a relatively small, local or regional brewery, producing fewer than 6 million barrels annually, and that is less than 25% owned by big brewers. Photo Credit: John C. Fletcher for USA […]
Michele Nash-HoffAuthor, ‘Can American Manufacturing be Saved? Why We Should and How We Can’ Follow Michele Nash-Hoff on Twitter: www.twitter.com/saveusmfg How would you like to go shopping and find that everywhere you went, the label said “Made in the World” instead of “Made in China,” “Made in India,” “Made in USA” etc.? The label on products Americans […]
BEIJING – The Chinese are coming — to your local movie theater. With the fanfare from Superman, and toasts of red wine, representatives of Chinese company Wanda signed a deal in Beijing Monday morning to buy AMC, the second-largest theater chain in the USA.
A Boeing 747-8 Freighter is shown during a tour of the Boeing 747-8 Intercontinental and Freighter assembly line on Saturday, February 12, 2011 at the Boeing plant in Everett. Photo: Joshua Trujillo, Seattlepi.com / SL By AUBREY COHEN, SEATTLEPI.COM STAFFPublished: Friday, May 25, 2012 Seattle is leading a manufacturing recovery in the […]
Jobs that largely left for Asia still find a niche, above, in North Carolina ROBBINSVILLE, N.C.–Stanley Furniture Co. – is betting baby cribs are among the few things Americans will pay a hefty premium for just because they carry a “Made in the U.S.A.” label. The 88-year-old company recently shifted its crib manufacturing back to the […]
The folks at Ann Arbor Builders started building their Made in America home on this lot on a gorgeous blue sky day, back on the 27th of April, 2012. We cannot wait to see the finished product! For more than 40 years, Ann Arbor Builders has been building some of the most beautiful and environmentally […]
The tide has begun to turn on the flow of manufacturing jobs from the U.S. to China and other low-cost countries, according to a new study from The Hackett Group, Inc. Some companies are already reshoring a portion of their manufacturing capacity, and this trend is expected to reach a crucial tipping point over the […]
CANTON, Ohio — The Ohio steel industry, led by a drilling boom in the gas and oil industry and a renewed demand for cars and light trucks, is growing again. Steelmakers across the state are racing to keep pace with plans to add a total of two million square feet of production space at a […]
Economists said before reports this week that manufacturers probably received more orders in April, and home sales rose, a sign the U.S. expansion is still on track.Factory bookings for long-lasting goods rose 0.3 percent last month after falling 3.9 percent in March, according to the median forecasts of 61 economists surveyed by Bloomberg News before a May […]
When Global Foundries was seeking a home for its new $7 billion factory, it skipped over Germany and Singapore, where it already has facilities and settled on the small town of Malta in upstate New York.
Maybe the once-ubiquitous label, Made in USA should be updated to: Made in USA — Again.
If you haven’t recently noticed a “Made in the USA” label, keep your eyes open: It’s on its way back.
It has been a great decade to be rich. Since 2001, high earners have enjoyed the best of all worlds. Since World War II, tax rates at the top of the income ladder have drifted down to the lowest levels. Incomes have stagnated for the middle class but continue to rise for the wealthy. Recent […]
Anybody paying attention to politics may have gotten the impression that women are falling behind in the economy. This is one more reason to tune out politicians.
The nearly 800 trains that makes up San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit, better known as BART, have reached the end of the line. “We have the oldest cars that are currently running in the country,” says Dick Wieczorek, head of BART’S procurement department.
A series of steps by China in recent weeks is encouraging U.S. officials that Beijing is proceeding with changes to currency and other financial policies that the two countries have long disputed.
We have just surpassed the 11,300 mark on our Facebook page. We have a remarkable, loyal, and supportive fan base. Each and every one of you all have a vested interest in this Movement. You are all very passionate about our Country, the United States of America, and you will all defend her till the […]
The economic recovery has been driven by a manufacturing revival in the past two years.But the strength of that revival could be threatened by the challenges facing a small and beleaguered sector of manufacturing that evokes images of a quainter, more labor-intensive era: the tool and die industry.
As Ann Arbor Builders Inc. hops aboard the slow train to economic recovery, the company wants to bring along other American businesses.
