On the second day of the Lean Accounting summit put on by Lean Fronteirs, Cheryl Jekiel, author of Lean HR, gave the keynote presentation on “The Future of the Horizontal Lean Enterprise, Rev Up Your Engines.” [Reposted from: savingusmanufacturing.com | Michele Nash-Hoff | November 12, 2014] On the second day of the Lean Accounting summit…
TOKYO — Japan’s prime minister has affirmed his commitment to reaching a broad trade deal with the United States and 11 other Pacific Rim nations, even as Tokyo stands accused of refusing to budge on the thorny issue of agricultural tariffs. [by Anna Fifield | November 7, 2014 | Washington Post] The Trans-Pacific Partnership free-trade…
The voters last week said jobs and the economy are their number one issues. Yet Obama, McConnell and the globalists are pushing hard to kill American jobs and the economy with more dumb trade and global governance deals. “For the last 16 months there’s been heightened intensity in the negotiations including on the ministerial level,”…
The economy added 214, 000 jobs in October. The pace has picked up over the last year, but it is still far short of the 400,000 per month needed to bring unemployment down to acceptable levels. [by Peter Morici | November 7, 2014] The official jobless rate is 5.8 percent, down from its recession peak…
If the R’s don’t do the right things to focus on job creation and the economy, shame on them. [by Dan DiMicco | November 6, 2014 | dandimicco.com] We need to do 5 things: 1-Stop Trade Mercantilism and return to President Reagans mantra of Rules Based and Enforced “Free and Balanced” Trade; 2- Build on our…
The Department of Labor reported this morning that America’s manufacturing sector added 15,000 jobs in October. The #AAMeter, which tracks President Obama’s promise to create 1 million new manufacturing jobs in his second term, boosts to +218,000 jobs, after positive revisions to September and August’s data. Commented Alliance for American Manufacturing President Scott Paul: “The…
Genuine General Tso’s chicken may soon be on the plate. The Department of Agriculture will allow Chinese poultry processing companies to ship fully cooked, frozen and refrigerated chicken to the United States. [by Stephanie Strom | November 6, 2014 | New York Times ] Food safety advocates have been predicting the announcement since the department…
Exit polls shows show that the Number 1 issue was the economy. Obama failed and the GOP won the election. Specifically, 45 percent of voters said, in exit polls, that the economy was their number one issue. Almost half say their own family’s financial situation hasn’t improved much over the past two years, and a…
The U.S. trade gap widened in September as exports fell to a five-month low, a sign of how a stronger dollar and slower growth overseas could weaken demand for American-made goods and weigh on the broader economy. [by Nick Timiraos | November 4, 2014 | Wall Street Journal] The trade deficit rose 7.6% to…
I’m quite sure voters did not want this to happen. The GOP was elected to fix our economy, not gut it further.