by Kenneth Thomas Is the Growth of Manufacturing Production a Mirage? A lot of people lament the decline in manufacturing employment, which has fallen by about 1/3 since 2000. As…

by Kenneth Thomas Lid Blowing Off Romney Tax Secrecy Gawker (via Eman at Daily Kos) dropped a bombshell yesterday when it released over 950 pages of confidential documents from 21…

by Kenneth Thomas Most U.S. Trade Agreement Improve Trade Balance, but Effect Overwhelmed by NAFTA and China Trade The U.S. trade deficit figures heavily in the analysis of Jeff Faux’s…

by Kenneth Thomas It’s the Middle Class, Stupid! (Review) When I saw that James Carville and Stan Greenberg had just published It’s the Middle Class, Stupid! (Blue Rider Press), I…

by Kenneth Thomas U.S. Trails at Least 15 OECD Countries in Median Wealth Via @exiledonline, I learned today (July 18) that Canadians are richer than Americans. This is rather surprising,…

by Kenneth Thomas Alabama’s Airbus Subsidy Eerily Reminiscent of Auto “Transplants” The July 2 announcement that Airbus would begin assembly of its A-320 airliner in Mobile, Alabama, may be good…

…followed the law. As Jon Stewart had to point out since the major media did not, Romney did plenty to affect the law he was supposedly “just following,” including his…

by Kenneth Thomas Guest post: Why the World Should Care About America’s Middle Class Tim Worstall, in his Forbes blog, attacks my series (here and here) on whether globalization is…

by Kenneth Thomas Guest Post: Is globalization good for America’s middle class? Part 2 In Part 1, I examined what economic theory has to say about the winners and losers…

by Kenneth Thomas Is Globalization Good for America’s Middle Class? Part 1 In this blog, I have frequently documented economic trends that have been bad for the middle class: Declining…