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Unions and Their Drag on Productivity and Competitiveness
Unions are interest groups, and America’s challenges require every group to put the national interest ahead of narrow self-interest. Yes, including…
Nov 14
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Robert D. Atkinson
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The CCP’s Useful Idiots
We see plenty of “useful idiots” today. They no longer carry the Bolsheviks’ water, but rather parrot the CCP line as they disparage the West and praise…
Nov 7
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Robert D. Atkinson
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October 2025
Tracking and Copying Global Best-in-Class Productivity Practices
Governments must treat productivity growth as a deliberate pursuit, not a happy accident. A global effort to identify, study, and replicate…
Oct 31
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Robert D. Atkinson
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I Haven’t Worked in Industry, But I’m Right About America’s Robot Problem
With capital-lite corporate strategies shaped by Wall Street’s demand for high returns on assets and invested capital, U.S. firms invest relatively…
Oct 24
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Robert D. Atkinson
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What Happened to the American Business Creed? Part II: Societal Attacks
Americans have forgotten that prosperity depends on valuing productivity, grounding ideals in realism, striving for progress, and maintaining the…
Oct 17
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Robert D. Atkinson
Bernie Sanders’ Worker Dystopia: Never Lose Your Job But Never Get a Raise
If Senator Sanders wants to raise wages, he should focus on the real cause of slow growth, lagging productivity from low capital investment, instead of…
Oct 10
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Robert D. Atkinson
What Happened to the American Business Creed? Part I: Business Attacks
Although the seven values of the American Business Creed were widely accepted in the 1950s, two have eroded over time, driven largely by changes in…
Oct 3
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Robert D. Atkinson
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September 2025
The Paramount Question: Do Countries Actually Want Growth?
Unless we can restore the growth imperative in the West, we can—no surprise—expect slower, or in the case of some countries like Canada and the UK…
Sep 26
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Robert D. Atkinson
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Hey, AI Job Doomers: Wanna Bet?
Claims that AI-driven job destruction is inevitable could not be further from the truth. AI will boost U.S. productivity and spread new income across…
Sep 18
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Robert D. Atkinson
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Brussels’ Strategic Choice: Forge a Western Alliance to Prevail Over China, or Triangulate and Lose
It should be clear that unless Western, democratic, market-based economies start working together instead of against each other, China will dominate.
Sep 16
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Robert D. Atkinson
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Is It Too Much to Ask for a Third Way Beyond Free Trade and Constrained Trade?
Trade policy should focus first and foremost on defense, dual-use, and enabling sectors and largely ignore nonstrategic sectors.
Sep 10
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Robert D. Atkinson
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Abundance of Meh
The cool new movement among policy wonks won’t make a dent in ensuring America wins the existential techno-economic trade war we’re fighting with China.
Sep 8
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Robert D. Atkinson
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