Evolving Excellence welcomes GE back to America, sort of.  Sewell Chan of the New York Times gives an overview of the currency manipulation debate.  Several high-tech California manufacturers say we need domestic content requirements to grow manufacturing.  If you are unemployed and over 50, the chances for re-employment in this economy are bleak.  A profile of manufacturing czar Ron Bloom.  A look at export-based strategies for growth.  If everyone is doing it, it won’t work.  Sen. Sherrod Brown says we need a level playing field with China in clean energy manufacturing.  Two Capitol Hill events we’ll be watching this week: a Senate Banking Committee hearing on infrastructure  and a House Oversight and Government Reform Committee hearing on manufacturing and the defense industrial base.