American Manufacturing costs Have Almost Equalled China

You don’t need to a Nobel Prize in economics to know that the fracking revolution has been good for the U.S. What’s not so well known is just how competitive cheap oil and gas has made American manufacturing. BCG, the Boston consultancy, estimates the average cost to manufacture goods in the U.S. is now only 5% higher than in China

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Why Google’s Larry Page Is The Highest-Rated CEO In America

Think you have the best boss? Think again. Google’s Larry Page is the highest-rated CEO in the United States, according to career review website Glassdoor. The site on Wednesday announced the winners of its third annual CEO ranking, compiled based on anonymous, voluntary company review surveys. To collect its data, Glassdoor encourages feedback on whether employees approve or disapprove of

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#AliveWhileBlack Highlights The Ugly Discrimination Black America Knows Too Well

Protests spread around the country Wednesday night after a grand jury decided not to bring charges in the July death of Eric Garner, a black Staten Island man who died when a police officer placed him in a chokehold. The non-indictment came just over a week after a grand jury declined to indict a police officer in Ferguson, Missouri, for

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