Guessing is not a strategy: How to build decision velocity with AI and real-time data
June 10, 2026 | Live Webinar
Global Outsourcing
"How can our politicians call trade 'free' when year after year we sustain runaway trade deficits and the loss of hundreds of thousands of jobs? There is nothing free about such trade. It's mindless, but certainly not free." -- A prominent U.S. personality in his best selling book.
If you assume that the author is an anti-capitalist protectionist, then you could be excused…but you would be quite wrong. The author is a staunchly conservative, self-proclaimed lifelong Republican, and a fierce defender of capitalism. However, his core conviction in capitalism has not stopped Lou Dobbs, the anchor of CNN's Lou Dobbs Tonight and the author of Exporting America, from forming an "extremely parochial view of globalization" that, as his books says, is driven by his principal concern about the well-being of this country.
Dobbs' persistent hammering from his bully-pulpit is reshaping the debate regarding the impact of increased globalization on the American workers and the U.S. economy. David Attis, Director of Policy Studies at the Council of Competitiveness in Washington, D.C., concedes that Dobbs' relentless coverage of the issue has changed the type of rhetoric that one hears from politicians and policy makers. He adds, "I think that this at times jeopardizes the ability to deal with the subtleties of globalization issues."
These subtleties become quite apparent when one takes a …
Please log in or sign up below to read the rest of the article.
ADVERTISEMENTS
|
"The most incomprehensible thing about the universe is that it is comprehensible." - Albert Einstein |