I'm Back

Hello Friends,

At this point it is unlikely that anyway still reads this blog, but because I hope people do read in the future, this is my "I'm Back" post. After a long tenure at OFA as a part of President Obama's team, I am back in the real World.

My hope is that from here on out this will be a place where I talk mostly about economic, tax, and education policy, but with a little bit of everything else mixed in.

Here is to a free and open internet where ideas can be exchanged quickly and little cost for the betterment of society.

Thanks for reading,

Econowonk

Apple and The Fight for American Jobs

When famously asked "What kept them up at night?" President George Bush responded an attack on the homeland, and Chinese President Hu Jintao said creating 25 million jobs a year.

The answers of those two President's reflect the fundamental problem we face as a nation. That while we as a country and our policy makers are focused on 25 different issues and non-issues while China and many other nations have a laser focus on job creation.

The article that is the impetuous for this post is called, "How the US Lost Out on the iPhone Work."

I highly recommend the article. In the days to come I will highlight some of the potential policy solutions, but the bottom line for today is that at this moment any good ideas that could come of such a case study are two disparate to attract tenable political support in an election year.