Are Global Trade Winds Blowing Toward America?

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How do you speed up development from an idea to a finished product to market?  Head to the United States.  Think I'm kidding?  Guess again.

Near the end of this year’s second presidential debate, Candy Crowley of CNN pointed out that iPads, iPhones, and other globally sought-after Apple products are all made in China. What would it take, she asked both Mitt Romney and Barack Obama, to “convince a great American company to bring that manufacturing back here?”

As James Fallows, Atlantic national correspondent points out, "Still, the U.S. economy is so much larger than our manufacturing sector (referring to China), even in its battered condition, remains the largest in the world.

Read the comprehensive article:  Mr. China Comes to America

What do you think?