Steel
Rudacille’s Tome: A Must-Read for Labor Buffs (Review)
The pro-Globalization policies of deregulation, outsourcing of jobs overseas and privatizing of public assets helped to speed up the decline of steelmaking in the U.S., led to the “Financial Meltdown of 2008,” and, too, contributed to the massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.
China Investing in US-based Steel Mill? Spit in the Ocean of Trade
We do not see the Chinese investing in the US as a comparable path in the least as there are no Chinese manufacturers in the US with an established market anywhere comparable to the likes of Toyota, Honda and Mazda in the 1980s.
Visclosky Statement on China's Exchange Rate Policy
Bio: Congress
(D-Ind.)In 2009, China produced 47 percent of the world’s total output of steel - more than double the amount China produced in 2003.Illegal government subsidies and currency manipulation contributed to this unprecedented increase in production.
The ‘state of the union’ and what can be done about it
Even though the United States has been a low-cost steel provider for nearly a decade now, we still remain the world’s largest importer.
