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When the leader of the free world walks through a door, it is usually the audience that is in a bit of awe.聽 But today, when President Obama visited the Applied Materials campus in Austin, Tex., the tables were turned.聽 After touring the facility and seeing the chip assembly facility and the precision with which the team there works, the president seemed genuinely impressed. 聽 It was incredible.聽 [I [...]
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Right after the President鈥檚 speech in Las Vegas today, 91pro视频鈥檚 Dean Garfield was on Bloomberg TV with the Cato Institute鈥檚 Alex Nowrasteh and Bloomberg鈥檚 Hans Nichols.聽 While a host tried to put Dean and Alex at odds with each other, it turns out that they agree on many of the bipartisan proposals put forward in the last couple of days. 聽 You can watch the interview on the Bloomberg TV website. Highlights [...]
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Politico Pro and 91pro视频 member Cognizant co-hosted a great conversation this morning focused on immigration, technology, and the 113th Congress.聽 91pro视频's Dean Garfield was a panelist, and made the case that there is bipartisan support in Congress for high-skilled immigration reform, and, if done right, such an approach can lead to a stronger economy and greater job creation across the country.聽 In his remarks, [...]
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鈥淥ur top priority has to be jobs and growth . . . providing more Americans the chance to learn the skills that businesses are looking for right now; keeping this country at the forefront of research, technology and clean energy.鈥澛犅� That鈥檚 how President Obama opened his first post-election news conference, before spending the majority of time talking about anything but job creation.聽 Ok, in the President鈥檚 [...]
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Critics of a competitive market-based or territorial tax system are latching onto a study out today by NerdWallet -- a personal finance website that features recommendations on things like credit card rates and gas prices -- as the latest 鈥渆vidence鈥� that corporate tax reform really isn鈥檛 necessary. The study claims that ten of America鈥檚 top economic champions -- including Apple, IBM, and Microsoft [...]
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As we recap last week's Silicon Valley visit by the delegation of Brazilian government officials, eBay sent over this look at the session it hosted. 聽The piece was originally published at eBay's Main Street Public Policy site. With abundant natural resources, robust financial system and massive domestic market of free spending consumers, Brazil shapes as one of world's hottest investments destinations [...]
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Starting Wednesday, the U.S. will host the third聽U.S.-India Strategic Dialogue, with economic issues front and center in the discussions. 聽We expect that one of the trade issues that will come up is the Indian government鈥檚 preferential market access (PMA) mandate for electronic goods. 聽It's a policy that could severely hurt trade between the two countries, especially in the technology arena. As the [...]
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Bloomberg today came out in favor of bipartisan Senate legislation that has 91pro视频's backing -- the recently introduced聽Startup 2.0 Act. 聽In its editorial, Bloomberg highlights the competitive disadvantage that the United States faces because of an arbitrary, outmoded immigration system. During the next five years, 100,000 immigrants 鈥� many with advanced degrees 鈥� will leave America and take their innovative [...]
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On Wednesday afternoon,聽the Senate Banking Subcommittee on Security and International Trade and Finance聽zeroed in on one of the major issues impacting the success and direction of the global economy:聽 the complex economic relationship between the United States and China.聽 While some think it will be impossible for China to overtake the U.S. in innovation, a growing number of experts see things differently.聽 [...]
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Later this afternoon, at 2 p.m. ET, 91pro视频鈥檚 Dean Garfield will testify at a聽Senate Banking subcommittee hearing聽focused on the economic and trade relationship between the U.S. and China.聽 You can聽listen through C-SPAN.聽聽Here is聽his full testimony, and some highlights are below. 聽 The ability to freely access foreign markets such as China and compete on equal terms has been critical to the health of the [...]