A Pulled Scoop Shows U.S. Fought to Keep Haitian Wages Down (UPDATED)

By Ryan Chittum   Jun 3, 2011 at 01:06 PM

The Nation has a scoop—or had, actually—from Wikileaks cables showing that the Obama administration pressured Haiti not to raise its... More

A Triangle Shirtwaist-Like Disaster, Buried By the U.S. Press

Outsourcing tragedies while paying a sliver of what our workers made 100 years ago

By Ryan Chittum   Apr 5, 2011 at 02:11 PM

The Consumerist has a fascinating post asking whether we've really eliminated our Triangle Shirtwaist Factory disasters or if we've just... More

Audit Notes: Economic Policy Edition

By Ryan Chittum   Oct 13, 2011 at 07:17 PM

Ezra Klein, in his long story (which you should read) on why and how Obama's economic policy failed (I should... More

Audit Notes: Free Trade “Hit,” Taxing Wall Street, Bruce Karatz v. Tron Carter

By Ryan Chittum   Nov 12, 2010 at 03:29 PM

One thing the financial press doesn't much pretend to be neutral about is "free trade." They love that stuff. See... More

Audit Notes: The Costs of Trade, WSJ Op-Ed Page, Frontier Days

By Ryan Chittum   Sep 27, 2011 at 07:53 PM

The Wall Street Journal covers an MIT study that found the downsides of trade with China have been worse than... More

Audit Notes: Two Economies, Red-Handed Raj, Life at SXSW

By Ryan Chittum   Mar 15, 2011 at 08:30 PM

Steven Pearlstein of the Washington Post comments on a new study out from an NYU prof that shows how globalization... More

Ezra Klein’s Flawed Assumptions on Trade With China

By Ryan Chittum   Jan 25, 2011 at 07:11 PM

Ezra Klein accepts some unfortunate assumptions in his Washington Post column on trade yesterday morning. Let's start with this one:... More

Flack-Driven Local Coverage of a Factory Closure Fails

Fort Smith’s Southwest Times Record blows it on a huge loss to the community

By Ryan Chittum   Oct 28, 2011 at 06:33 PM

Whirpool is laying off more than a thousand employees in Fort Smith, Arkansas, and shipping the work to Mexico and... More

Pearlstein: On China Trade, an Eye for an Eye

By Ryan Chittum   Jan 21, 2011 at 12:09 PM

Of all the commentary this week on China, none got to the heart of the problem anywhere near as well... More

Remapping the Debate on China’s Industrial Policy

Our rival has one. Where’s ours?

By Ryan Chittum   Jan 13, 2011 at 04:27 PM

Remapping Debate has an interesting piece on how the U.S. finds itself at the mercy of the Chinese for a... More

That Giant Sucking Sound

WSJ: Big companies shed millions of jobs in 2000s while adding millions abroad

By Ryan Chittum   Apr 19, 2011 at 03:03 PM

The Wall Street Journal has your chart of the day. It shows that U.S.-based multinational corporations added 2.4 million workers... More