Charles Duhigg Quotes
There are supply chains that exist in China and Asia now which the U.S. simply can't replicate.
Duhigg, Charles. "The iEconomy." The New York Times, 2012.
Ethan Allan is one of the most traditional American firms which has remained very healthy during globalization by moving only part of its manufacturing off shore. It actually sells much furniture to China which is made in the United States and has created almost as many white collar jobs as it has lost manufacturing jobs.
Fallows was contrasting the benefit that offshore manufacturing brought many Americans in addition to the damage to the Americans who lost their jobs to Chinese manufacturing workers. The complexity was that the offshoring of manufacturing does damage to many American blue collar but benefits white collar workers.
The Export-Import Bank lends money at good interest rates to foreign businesses to buy goods manufactured in the United States. It creates hundreds of thousands of American jobs each year, and costs the American taxpayer nothing; the bank actually makes money, None the less, it has been the policy of the extremist conservative Republicans like the Tea Party to oppose the bank’s charter renewal.
In China, the religious activities of the Missionaries never really lead to the many troubles between the missionaries and the Chinese. It was their activities in the non-religious arenas articulated here by Denby.
Charles Duhigg (born 1974) is an American journalist and non-fiction author. He was a reporter for The New York Times, currently writes for The New Yorker Magazine and is the author of two books on habits and productivity, titled The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business and Smarter Faster Better. In 2013, Duhigg was the recipient of the Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting for a series of 10 articles on the business practices of Apple and other technology companies.
