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Obama, China and wishful thinking on jobs Obama, China and wishful thinking on jobs

The U.S. and China can both produce more than their consumers can buy, and both want to keep it that way
  • A Chinese netbook in every pot

    A hint that China's consumers are waking up: Global shipments of cheap computer processors are surging
  • "Obama is average"

    In an interview, a leading voice of America's conservative intellectuals discusses Barack Obama's failures
  • Salon interviews the late Adam Smith

    The 18th century's patron saint of free markets shares his surprising views about Barack Obama and the U.S. economy
  • The end of the Pax Americana?

    Obama has the chance to end our Cold War hangover, and start an era where the U.S. is not the sole global policeman
  • Blowing jobs to China

    How screwed up is U.S. energy policy? A wind farm in Texas might get stimulus money to buy Chinese technology
  • A vast Jesuit missionary ginseng conspiracy

    From Wisconsin to the court of the Kang-Hsi emperor, with cameos by Daniel Boone and John Jacob Astor
  • The Chinese monorail to Mecca

    From New York City to Saudia Arabia, China's construction industry is flexing muscles of steel
  • The curious case of the Chinese Internet folk meme

    Play or protest? Why did an innocuous message in a World of Warcraft forum generate 300,000 comments in 24 hours?
  • China prepares for Oba Mao

    Tea party alert: The president's upcoming Asia trip exposes his secret past as a revolutionary comrade-in-arms
  • Bernanke to China: Spend more on healthcare

    Chinese citizens save too much because their safety net sucks. What's the lesson for the U.S.?
  • China sails into the Gulf of Mexico

    A Chinese oil firm aims for offshore riches. It is no coincidence that the price of crude just hit a 2009 high
  • Can't find a job? Try China

    A pharma firm slashes jobs in the West but boosts its Chinese workforce. Also, it helps if you are a top scientist
  • Monsanto's weedkiller problem

    Chinese competition and slumping demand are stunting RoundUp's growth. Farmers don't seem to mind
  • Michele Bachmann's insecurity complex

    If the dollar is replaced as the world's number one currency, maybe the United States isn't so special, after all
  • Obama undercuts Iran

    With nuclear fears growing, the president's shrewd moves are winning Russian support for boxing in Iran
  • One company, half a billion cellphones

    One out of every 12 humans on the planet is a China Mobile customer. Can you hear them now?
  • Does Silicon Valley have a chemistry problem?

    Green power is doomed in the Valley, says one local, because there's no Fry's catering to the research chemists
  • Don't blame the feds if Silicon Valley falls behind

    Why should the U.S. government bankroll the Valley's design-here, manufacture-there model?
  • China powers up

    Proof positive that Keynesian fiscal stimulus works: Chinese electricity production just hit an all-time high
  • China solar, Inc.

    2000 megawatts here, 2000 megawatts there, pretty soon you are talking about world renewable energy domination
  • Chinese goldbugs and the dollar

    The price of gold is over $1000 an ounce. Is China involved?
  • China's long march against the dollar

    By purchasing $50 billion of new IMF bonds, the People's Republic is backing up talk with action
  • Does the Prius have an Achilles heel?

    Hybrid technology depends on rare minerals currently produced mostly in China. The Saudi oil sheiks must be pleased
  • Hu Jintao is no Kaiser Wilhelm

    Historian Niall Ferguson says "Chimerica" is doomed. Kaiser Kuo disagrees, amid a storm of Twitter porn
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