“Home Star is a common sense idea that would create jobs and provide a boost to local economies, while helping families afford their energy bills. By encouraging homeowners to invest in energy efficiency retrofits, Home Star would create 170,000 manufacturing and construction jobs that could not be outsourced to China.” IdeasHelpingHomeJobsEnergyStarsCommonEconomyBillsChinaLocalsCommon SenseConstructionEfficiencyManufacturingBoostEnergy EfficiencyHomeownersOutsourced Author:Peter Welch
“The people of the United States don't recognize it, but the oil industry has given the greatest gift to the people of the nation, and that gift is the low cost of energy. Bottom line is this enables the country to be very competitive manufacturing-wise and in the world economy.” PeopleWorldCountryStatesEnergyGivenNationsLinesUnitedUnited StatesEconomyWiseIndustryCostLowsBottomOilBottom LineManufacturingGreatest GiftsWorld EconomyOil Industry Author:Ray L. Hunt
“I believe we can do much more to adapt to the structural changes in the global economy, get high-end manufacturing back here, set up clusters of economic activity where you have, among other things, continuous retraining of people well into their middle years so they never become irrelevant to the current job market.” PeopleYearsBelieveWellsEndsJobsI BelieveCan DoEconomyEconomicMiddleActivityCurrentsIrrelevantManufacturingGlobal EconomyGetting HighClusters Author:William J. Clinton
“Tourism, viticulture and agriculture, logging and mining, ranching and manufacturing and ever-increasing numbers of small and medium-sized businesses are just a few of the industries, within this diverse riding, that help maintain a growing economy.” HelpingNumbersEconomyGrowingIndustryMediumsRidingDiverseAgricultureManufacturingTourismMiningLoggingGrowing EconomyRanching Author:Stockwell Day
“Our goal is not to assume leadership of existing institutions, but rather to render them irrelevant. We don't want to take over the state or change its policies. We want to render its laws unenforceable. We don't want to take over corporations and make them more 'socially responsible.' We want to build a counter-economy of open-source information, neighborhood garage manufacturing, permaculture, encrypted currency and mutual banks, leaving the corporations to die on the vine along with the state. We do not hope to reform the existing order. We intend to serve as its grave-diggers.” WantStatesLawPurposeOrderDiesSocialGoalChangeEconomyInformationPolicySourceEconomicsResponsibleAimInstitutionsAssumingLeavingGravesReformCorporationsNeighborhoodMutualCurrencyIrrelevantManufacturingReformationGarageVinesRenderingPermacultureOpen SourceEconomic Reforms Author:Kevin Carson
“Making information free is survivable so long as only limited numbers of people are disenfranchised. As much as it pains me to say so, we can survive if we only destroy the middle classes of musicians, journalists, and photographers. What is not survivable is the additional destruction of the middle classes in transportation, manufacturing, energy, office work, education, and health care. And all that destruction will come surely enough if the dominant idea of an information economy isn't improved.” PeopleIfsLongIdeasEnoughCarePainEnergyNumbersClassEconomyMiddleInformationOfficeMusicianDestructionPhotographerHealth CareJournalistMiddle ClassDominantManufacturingTransportationDisenfranchisedOffice Work Book:Who Owns the Future? Source: Who Owns the Future?
“Germany is a fascinating role model. The Germans have maintained their manufacturing edge despite being a high-tax, high-regulation economy. Why? Because the government really set about ensuring that it maintained funding for technical training, technical advancements and programs. It made a concerted effort to retain high-end, complex manufacturing -- the kind of BMW model, if you will. And they've done that so successfully that Germany, which has a quarter of America's population, exports more than America does.” IfsKindDoeMadeEndsDoneGovernmentAmericaEffortRolesEconomyTaxesModelsTrainingProgramComplexesEdgesPopulationDespiteGermanyFascinatingRole ModelsQuartersRegulationAdvancementFundingManufacturingBmwHigh TaxesTechnical Training Author:Fareed Zakaria
“One of the most striking trends, since at least the 1960's, has been for employment in services to grow far more rapidly than employment in manufacturing. It is this trend that has led to the view that developed economies have become de-industrialized and that they are now effectively service economies.” Has BeensGrowsViewsEconomyEmploymentTrends1960sManufacturing Author:Peter Dicken
“Beneficial in theory, so-called free trade agreements far too often have been detrimental to the United States economy and the manufacturing sector that forms its central pillar.” Has BeensStatesFormUnitedUnited StatesEconomyTheoryTradeAgreementBeneficialManufacturingPillarsFree TradeDetrimentalTrade AgreementsUnited States Economy Author:Dan Kildee
“Canada, the United States and Mexico, we developed these energy reserves that we have in this North American region. And you can see a not only driving down the cost of electricity but a major manufacturing boom in this country. Couple that with tax policy, reduction, reducing the corporate tax rate, and that I think a renaissance in manufacturing like we've never seen in this country and really drive the economy.” ThinkingCountryStatesEnergyUnitedUnited StatesEconomyPolicyCoupleCostTaxesMajorsRateDrivingCorporateCanadaRegionsMexicoReservesElectricityReducingManufacturingRenaissanceReduction Author:Rick Perry
“Imperceptibly, the developed world's manufacturing base was gradually eroding and being replaced by securitized finance that destroyed itself and nearly its economies in 2008.” WorldEconomyFinanceDestroyedReplacedManufacturing Author:Bill Gross
“The economy is a ponzi scheme. People are working harder than they ever have for less wages, but we have so many bobbles because manufacturing has come up so quickly over the past hundred years that people have the illusion of wealth.” PeopleYearsPastWealthEconomyIllusionHundredHarderCome UpSchemesWagesManufacturingOver The PastPonzi Scheme Author:Alex Jones
“From the 1970s, there has been a significant change in the US economy, as planners, private and state, shifted it toward financialization and the offshoring of production, driven in part by the declining rate of profit in domestic manufacturing.” Has BeensStatesEconomyRateProfitProductionsDrivenSignificantManufacturingPlannersSignificant Change Author:Noam Chomsky
“Our current expectations for what our students should learn in school were set fifty years ago to meet the needs of an economy based on manufacturing and agriculture. We now have an economy based on knowledge and technology.” NeedsShouldYearsSchoolTechnologyEconomyStudentsExpectationsYears AgoCurrentsAgricultureManufacturing Author:Bill Gates