 | BAMW: The American-made Retail E-guide is here!
It's been over a year since I announced the intention to build an American-made Retail E-guide, but the long-awaited pdf database is finally here. |
| | Making Patriotic Choices To Save The Economy
It's time for all Americans to remember that patriotism is about more than fighting abroad. It's also about fighting for ourselves, our neighbors and our communities here in the United States. It's time for economic patriotism. |
| | Toyota Recalls 1.13 million 2005-08 model Toyota Corolla and Toyota Matrix Vehicles
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration had opened an investigation in the vehicles in November, after it received 163 complaints, including six crashes, about engines stalling in the cars. On Aug. 18, NHTSA upgraded its investigation of the defect to an engineering analysis, after which a recall would have been imminent. |
| | U.S. Spends, China Benefits
Congress's border fence with Mexico is built with--you guessed it--Chinese steel. |
| | Toledo Blade letter to the editor: It's easy to buy American goods
The writer of the Aug. 13 "Define 'buying American'" Readers' Forum letter, and anyone else who seeks clarity on what it means to buy American, would do well to educate themselves on the matter by reading the book How Americans can Buy American: The Power of Consumer Patriotism by Roger Simmermaker. |
| | Ford, GM Brands Top Customer Satisfaction – Study
One year after chaos engulfed the U.S. auto industry, American consumers say cars built by Ford Motor Co. and General Motors Co. are the tops when it comes to vehicle satisfaction. Ford's Lincoln-Mercury and GM's Buick brands took the No. 1 and No. 2 spots, respectively, in the American Customer Satisfaction Index released Tuesday. Lincoln-Mercury had an 89% customer satisfaction average while Buick was 88%. This was the first time U.S. auto makers have held the two top spots in the survey. BMW, Cadillac and Mercedes-Benz all finished together with an 86% average. |
| | Probe begins after complaint of Kia steering wheel falling off
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said an owner of a 2010 Kia Soul reported that the steering shaft decoupled from the steering wheel as the vehicle was being driven, resulting in a complete loss of control. |
| | Wal-Mart Quietly Raises Prices
Wal-Mart Stores, which for years has touted its prowess at lowering prices, has been doing the opposite as it tries to bolster its bottom line amid stagnating sales. A JPMorgan Chase study of a Walmart Supercenter in Virginia found that the world's largest retailer has raised prices by nearly 6% on average over the past six weeks, according to the New York Post. |
| | How to jump-start American manufacturing
President Obama observed last week that the U.S. manufacturing sector has "been hit hard for as long as folks can remember." In fact, the last time so few Americans worked in manufacturing was April 1941. Since the Great Recession began in December 2007, America has lost 16 percent of its manufacturing payroll jobs. While there has been a slight uptick in manufacturing jobs in the last seven months, only 11.7 million Americans work in this sector, down from 17.3 million 10 years ago. That's barely 9 percent of total U.S. nonfarm payroll jobs. More Americans now work in the leisure and hospitality industry. |
| | Show-Me State Shows How to Subsidize Chinese Manufacturing Plants in US
Value of China-based Mamtek International's investment in new sweetener factory in Moberly, Missouri: $46 million; Value of investment in this factory by other private parties: $8 million; Subsidies given to this project by State of Missouri and town of Moberly: $55.086 million |
| | China admits only foreigners hit by anti-trust law
China acknowledged Thursday that only foreign companies have been forced to scrap or change business deals under its two-year-old anti-monopoly law but rejected complaints the measure is discriminatory. |
| | Trade Deficit Slows Recovery
The trade deficit is a huge drag on economic recovery and jobs creation. In the second quarter overall, the imports grew so much more rapidly than exports that the growing trade gap subtracted 2.8 percent from growth. |
| | BAMW: Chinese bad news equals American status quo
What happens with the Chinese economy and more specifically Chinese manufacturing in the near future will have big implications for the United States and the broader global economy. |
| | Ford says its UAW deals are bringing back overseas jobs
Competitive contracts with the United Auto Workers union are helping Ford bring back to its factories nearly 2,000 jobs that would have gone to parts companies — some in other countries, the company said Wednesday. The automaker said the 2007 union master contract allows it to hire workers at $14 an hour, about half the hourly rate of current workers. Factory-level contracts have also changed work rules to make plants more efficient. |
| | Some manufacturing heads back to USA
Faced with rising costs, General Electric is moving production of its new energy-efficient water heater halfway around the world. The country it's leaving? China. The one it's bringing 400 jobs and a newly renovated factory? The United States. Ford Motor said Wednesday that it's bringing nearly 2,000 jobs to its U.S. plants by 2012 from suppliers, including those in Japan, Mexico and India. |
| | Chinese firm to buy U.S. steel for Texas wind farm project
Chinese makers of turbines for a West Texas wind farm agreed to buy steel from U.S. producers after lawmakers objected to foreign production of the equipment. |
| | BAMW: Special Summer Savings
In an economy often overrun with imports and cheap, Chinese knockoffs of authentic American products, it's always a special act of patriotism to Buy American while there is still American left to buy, and to help ensure that there always will be. |
| | Pelosi: Manufacturing Strategy Reaffirms When We 'Make It In America,' We Create Jobs and Lead World Economy
Speaker Nancy Pelosi released the following statement today after House Democrats rolled out "Make It In America," a new strategy to create new high-skill, high-wage American manufacturing jobs and restore U.S. leadership in the global economy... |
| | Wolf: Send work back to U.S.
Tenth District Rep. Frank R. Wolf plans to introduce legislation next week to encourage American companies with manufacturing or call-center operations overseas to bring those jobs back home. Wolf's "Strategic Manufacturing & Job Repatriation Act" would align federal funding to support U.S. manufacturing growth, study a new federal tax incentive to promote job repatriation and bolster American intellectual property protections. |
| | Make it in America (Rep. Steny Hoyer)
Democrats are launching the "Make it in America" agenda: a manufacturing strategy based on the idea that when more products are made in America, more people will be able to make it in America. The "Make it in America" agenda will create incentives for investment in industry, strengthen manufacturing infrastructure and innovation, and help to level the playing field for American companies that compete globally. |
| | BAMW: Ending foreign economic dependence
Buying American is more than just about economic patriotism; it's about traditions rooted and grounded with other American values established by the Founding Fathers of our country like self-sufficiency, self-reliance, and independence. |
| | Rahm Emanuel says the President's big theme will be "Made in America."
In coming weeks, the president will expand his push to create clean-energy jobs to include more traditional industries such as automobiles and railroads. "Made in America" will become the "big theme," Mr. Emanuel said. |
| | BAMW: Lifetime-lasting American accessories for your home
The strength and success of American capitalism and entrepreneurship is often defined as that which is limited only by American imagination, innovation, and ingenuity. |
| | BAMW: Furniture for your home starts at Florida-based Home Furniture
If you've been shopping for furniture lately, you probably know just how difficult it is to find quality furniture made by fellow Americans these days. |
| | Meridian buys Cleantech America to Expand in Solar
Meridian Energy Ltd., the biggest New Zealand electricity producer, has agreed to buy solar power developer Cleantech America Inc. to expand into renewable electricity generation in the U.S. Government-owned Meridian, which operates New Zealand’s largest hydroelectric dams, paid $5.4 million for Cleantech and a five megawatt photovoltaic solar facility the San Francisco- based company is building in Mendota, California. |
