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U.S. Business
and Industry Council Research Fellow Alan Tonelson released the following
statement on the Obama administration’s final decision to permit the Chinese
takeover of federally subsidized U.S. advanced battery maker A123
Systems.

I'm not sure I agree with her main argument, but it's noteworthy that the deal has at least one prominent critic:

http://finance.yahoo.com/blogs/daily-ticker/lawmaker-fights-block-sale-u...

Jim Stewart had an interesting piece yesterday about the problems facing Boeing over its Dreamliner 787, but not for the reasons he would have expected: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/26/business/selection-of-the-boeing-787s-...

I was looking for an article I had written for Chief Executive and stumbled across this editor's note I wrote in 2005 when I was editor in chief of the magazine. Not everything I write is brilliant, but this one nailed its subject:

The U.S. Economic Bubble

August 1 2005 by William Holstein

It's amazing to see how Dell and Hewlett-Packard have both stumbled so badly. Michael Dell may take his company private again to fix it and the business press is filled with stories about how it may take Meg Whitman five years to fix HP.