Using German ingenuity to fix our economy

Aheretical idea has entered the national discourse: Maybe some other nations handle their economies better than we do.

Some nations, after all, are growing like gangbusters. Some nations have retained manufacturing — even high-wage manufacturing — in the face of low-wage competition. And in some nations, ordinary people actually share in the proceeds from globalization that in this nation flow only to the rich.

Harold Meyerson

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