Business U.S. Manufacturing Rebound Lags Behind Work Sent Abroad America Is Getting More Competitive, but Reshoring ‘Not What It’s Cracked Up to Be,’ Study Finds ENLARGE Stanley Black & Decker opened a plant in Charlotte, N.C., a year ago to assemble some power drills and other tools previously made only overseas. But that factory relies […]…
About: William Holstein
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The 2015 Overseas Press Club Foundation winners
One of my passions is the Overseas Press Club Foundation and we have just selected 15 college students to come to New York and receive scholarships and fellowships in support of their dream of becoming foreign correspondents. That will happen on February 20 at the Yale Club in mid-town Manhattan. Here are the winners: Congratulations […]…
More Great Thinking from Brookings
What States Need to Do to Grow Their Advanced Industries by Bruce Katz,Mark Muro | December 12, 2014 Voters said unequivocally in this year’s midterm elections that economic growth and quality jobs are their top concerns. The divided federal government that resulted from those elections seems likely to take incremental but not transformative […]…
Has Anybody Noticed the Japanese Yen?
I haven’t read or heard one bit of commentary on the spectacular plunge in the value of the Japanese yen. It has been stable in the region of 100 yen to the dollar for years but in the space of a few short weeks, it has fallen to 120 yen, a movement of 20 percent. […]…
Materials Get a Makeover
Computer modeling accelerates development of substances with special properties Researchers are using advanced modeling software to manipulate materials at the molecular level, giving them properties that enable once-unthinkable products. By accelerating the rate at which new materials are developed, simulation is reshaping the modern world. By William J. Holstein Materials are the building blocks of […]…
