reason.com - 12/8/2008
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Wrong, says urban theorist Joel Kotkin, in a column excoriating any kind of bailout for the Big Three automakers. Indeed, until the globalization of the financial crisis, American manufacturing exports were reaching record levels. Overall, U.S. industry has become among the most productive in ...
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Daimnation! —
... expanding support for training a new generation of skilled blue collar workers and using incentives to encourage firms to improve their energy efficiency. These are the steps we can expect our competitors in Europe, Asia and the developing world to take as well.
Rather than looking for ways to bail out the most egregious serial failures, let us find ways to provide incentives for those successful at creating new jobs and saving existing ones.
Via Hit & Run.
Damian P.
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