In the midst of the Olympics, I missed an interesting story about a car tax that will go into effect September 1. Ostensibly it is designed to reduce pollution and vehicles that use a lot of gasoline. However, as the Economist points out, the real goal is to reduce imports from foreign car manufacturers, who [...]
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It is great political fodder to talk about the horrors of outsourcing, and indeed it can be a major problem when there are no corresponding training programs to give workers skills they need to be competitive when their jobs go elsewhere. On the other hand, sometimes outsourcing part of the production line makes it possible [...]
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