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May 16, 2012 Headlines: Manufacturing Comeback, China's Innovators, Google in China, and More

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• 05/16/2012

USAT: Editorial on the resurgence of manufacturing.

NYT: The Commerce Department is expected to make a decision soon on China’s illegal imports.

The Hill: Senators want to make it harder for foreign solar firms to receive American tax credits.

The Atlantic: Is the Eurozone ready to crumble?

Bloomberg: Chinese economic growth is expected to fall below 8% this year.

The Atlantic: Is China ready to become an innovator, not just a producer?

NYT: How to measure the true air quality in China.

The Atlantic: Chicago is ready to bring back manufacturing jobs.

NYT: Chinese regulators are forcing Google to bend to their will.

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• 05/15/2012

NYT: Economic growth, like much of life in China, is highly regulated by the authorities.

The Hill: President Obama will not be attending an Asia-Pacific trade summit in Russia.

WSJ: Manufacturing in New York is on the upswing.

The Atlantic: The fastest-dying and fastest-growing jobs on the latter 20th Century.

USAT: In a new poll, 58% of Americans see the economy improving over the next year.

LeatherUp: Cleveland CycleWerks is moving motorcycle production from China to Ohio.

AP: Chinese authorities are not responding fast enough to fix structural problems with their economic model.

Bloomberg: Analysis of China’s monetary policies.

NASDAQ: China is looking to nationalize production of rare earth minerals.

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• 05/14/2012

NYT: Aircraft makers are now expanding into China.

Reuters: Ford expands production in China.

WSJ: Economists still see the yuan as severely undervalued.

MSNBC: Mitt Romney says that we’re “on the verge of a manufacturing renaissance”.

WSJ: China’s investment in a military-industrial base is about to produce their first mass domestic-produced jet engine.

The Hill: Export-Import Bank legislation is on the Senate’s docket this week.

WSJ: Exports are up, which is a good sign for the economy as a whole.

The Atlantic: Singapore’s economic success comes from a strong manufacturing policy.

The Hill: Lawmakers have no comments on a Chinese bank taking over 13 banks in New York and California.

WSJ: Unemployment claims continue to fall.

NYT: Asian demand is driving the rise in business jet sales.

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• 05/11/2012

The Hill: As imports expanded, March saw a jump up in the monthly U.S. trade deficit.

NYT: China's slowing economy is showing the limits of the Communist political model.

The Hill: Jobless claims continue their slide, giving hope to a long-term recovery.

The Atlantic: How long can Shanghai's growth sustain itself?

The Hill: Export-Import Bank bill stalls in the Senate.

Bonddad: Despite record trade deficits, exports are up.

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• 05/10/2012

The Atlantic: Trying to decipher the Chinese Dream.

The Hill: Congress wants to protect domestic footwear companies from foreign dumping.

NYT: Tracking manufacturing growth across the country.

The Hill: Yesterday the House passed a reauthorization of the Export-Import Bank.

TIME: What's next for the Eurozone?

WSJ: The Chen Guangcheng saga gives little hope for a future of Chinese dissent.

NYT: The future of manufacturing.

The Hill: A renewed push for tax cuts for companies that bring jobs back home.

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• 05/09/2012

ATU: President Obama was in Albany, NY to tour a nanotechnology plant yesterday.

R&D: For is planning to up production by 40,000 vehicles in 2012.

LAT: Cities are posed to become manufacturing hubs over the next decade.

NYT: The intrigue behind the Cheng Guangcheng case.

The Hill: Export-Import Bank deal appears to be in the works.

WSJ: Chinese demand for luxury goods shows no signs of stopping.

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• 05/08/2012

TB: Mitt Romney hosted a town hall meeting at a factory in Ohio yesterday, and pledges to hold China accountable.

NYT: Meanwhile, President Obama calls on Congress to focus on job creation, including clean energy manufacturing.

The Atlantic: The American-made Boeing 787 Dreamliner, the most high-tech aircraft since the advent of the jet engine, is on display in Washington this week.

TBP: Analysis of the Eurozone crisis.

The Hill: A new bill in the House would help small firms boost exports.

NYT: The Chinese regime has expelled al-Jazeera's English-language bureau.

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• 05/07/2012

The Hill: Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner declares success in the recent China trade talks.

HuffPo: AAM's Scott Paul on why we shouldn't be celebrating anytime soon.

WSJ: Steelworkers respond to accusations that enforcing trade law with China isn't worth the cost.

TIME: Why the recovery isn't generating enough jobs.

WSJ: Further analysis of the disappointing jobs numbers.

Krugman: Mitt Romney's job creation promises are nowhere near reality.

WSJ: Video report on the rise of labor force dropouts.

The Atlantic: 13 charts making the economic case for Obama's re-election.

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• 05/04/2012

The economy added 115,000 jobs in April, with 16,000 of the gains coming from manufacturing jobs. Read coverage from the BLS, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, Reuters, Politico, and National Journal.

NYT: Chen Guangcheng will be “studying abroad” in a face-saving path forward.

Ezra Klein: The curse of the first quarter.

The Hill: The Asia-Pacific free trade agreement is almost a done deal.

NPR: 23 million Americans are unemployed or under-employed.

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• 05/03/2012

The Hill: Previewing tomorrow’s jobs numbers.

FP: New photos show Chen Guangcheng at the U.S. Embassy in Beijing.

NYT: New reports show the dissident wants to leave China.

The Hill: A new report validates the success of measures taken in early 2009 to stave off depression.

WSJ: Manufacturing job growth accelerated in March.

NYT: Eurozone unemployment reaches an all-time high.

The Hill: private sector hiring slowed over the past month.

Krugman: The success of postwar America was not the result of austerity and cutbacks.