President Obama’s State of the Union address is tonight.  The economy will dominate the speech.    Obama is likely to press for increased infrastructure investment.    A Harvard business professor offers Obama advice on an innovation agenda.    Does the White House know how to create a job?    A reminder of what public investment has meant to America. 

For a change, some good manufacturing news: Auto jobs are coming to Flint.   A steel mill reopens in South Carolina.    For some people, things are looking better in manufacturing-heavy Elkhart, Indiana. 

China’s “problems” are a big topic in Davos.  (So are the skiing conditions, one can imagine.) 

Matt Yglesias thinks he knows more about China than Robert Samuelson.  So does Ezra Klein.  (Maybe Matt and Ezra should visit a factory and talk to blue-collar workers.)

Clyde Prestowitz wonders how “American” Jeff Immelt is. 

China may have acquired stealth technology from a U.S. stealth fighter shot down over the Balkans a decade ago.