Manufacturing

Job growth and wage gains won't happen without fixing "a regulatory system that is too inefficient, too complex and too exposed to shifts in the political wind," the officials said. (AP Photo/Alan Diaz)

Business, labor leaders join to ask Congress to roll back regulations

Sean Higgins · September 29, 2017 10:22 pm

On North Korea, what is Chris Matthews talking about?

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On North Korea, what is Chris Matthews talking about?

Becket Adams · September 27, 2017 5:48 pm

This petition in front of the ITC represents exactly the kind of special-interest policies that the United States government should avoid. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)

Here’s how trade protectionism can destroy American manufacturing jobs

Ralph Norman · September 22, 2017 3:30 pm

Why isn't Apple piling the phones up high to capitalize on the publicity they've got? (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez, File)

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Apple is wise not to make the much-hyped new iPhone available yet

Tim Worstall · September 18, 2017 7:24 pm

The video from the president's re-election campaign features one apprentice, two employees and the CEO of Medalcraft Mint. (Donald J. Trump for President/YouTube)

Trump re-election campaign releases video highlighting president’s efforts to boost manufacturing

Melissa Quinn · September 6, 2017 3:31 pm

"I see this as a game-changer," House Speaker Paul Ryan said. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Paul Ryan defends Wisconsin’s tax incentives for Foxconn factory

Joseph Lawler · August 22, 2017 3:11 am

The council was disbanded Wednesday. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

AFL-CIO president Richard Trumka: Trump’s manufacturing council was ‘a joke’

Naomi Lim · August 18, 2017 3:20 am

Even as some Republicans criticized Trump for his comments about the weekend violence in Charlottesville, Va., key players suggested that the push for tax reform would proceed apace. Big businesses are putting "100 percent support behind, basically the consolidated Republican position," said Grover Norquist, a conservative activist who as head of Americans for Tax Reform has pushed for a reform of the tax code for years. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Despite CEO exodus, Republicans think tax reform is inoculated from Trump race controversy

Joseph Lawler · August 17, 2017 11:12 pm

Picking a handful of CEOs and letting them into the West Wing for some back-slapping and subsidy-suckling isn't being pro-business. It's pro-cronyism. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Good riddance to White House corporate commissions

Washington Examiner · August 17, 2017 10:10 pm

President Trump talks with Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk, center, and White House chief strategist Steve Bannon during a meeting with business leaders in the White House. Musk fled Trump's orbit after the president pulled the U.S. out of the Paris climate treaty, which could enrich Musk's subsidy-dependent companies. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

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Corporate America’s exodus from Trump may have just begun

Timothy P. Carney · August 17, 2017 1:52 pm

Chinese imports have helped destroy manufacturing jobs in the U.S. (AP Photo)

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Steve Bannon says we’re at ‘economic war with China.’ Here are the studies that back him up.

Timothy P. Carney · August 17, 2017 1:29 pm

"Rather than putting pressure on the businesspeople of the Manufacturing Council & Strategy & Policy Forum, I am ending both. Thank you all!" (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Trump abruptly ends business and manufacturing councils after Charlottesville resignations

Anna Giaritelli · August 16, 2017 5:24 pm