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World Power Swings back to America

Oct. 24, 2011 by Andrew R. Thomas in The ART Of Business

It is hard to truly appreciate the staying power of American manufacturing, ideas, innovations, and our culture without getting overseas.

In these days, filled with seemingly more and more bad news, it is a Brit- Ambrose Evans-Pritchard of The Telegraph- who best reminds of the progress we have made in turning it around. And, what the future holds

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