The Real Cost Of Offshoring

U.S. data show that moving jobs overseas hasn't hurt the economy. Here's why those stats are wrong

In terms of trade policy, the new perspective suggests the U.S. may have a worse competitiveness problem than most people realized. It was easy to downplay the huge trade deficit as long as it seemed as though domestic growth was strong. But if the import boom is actually creating only a facade of growth, that's a different story. This lends more credence to corporate leaders such as CEO John Chambers of Cisco Systems Inc. (CSCO ) who have publicly worried ... Full Story »

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by Dwight Rousu - Oct. 1, 2008

The story is about defficiencies that affect the validity of government economic statistics, which affects the validity of business analysis, government policy, and the political calculus. The story is largely about uncertainty in the current statistics, rather than an identified specific error. It also ignores other productivity factors that may not be correctly incorporated that may add to the problems.

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