DEVELOPMENT:  For the U.S., It Must Be Different
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DAVOS, Jan 27 (IPS) - International Monetary Fund managing director  Dominique Strauss-Kahn has proposed a global fiscal stimulus to  prevent economic contagion from the worsening housing and credit  market crisis in the United States.
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WASHINGTON - The United States and other countries must work together to right a skewed pattern of trade and investment around the globe, a move that would help worldwide economic stability, Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke suggested yesterday.
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Can 'unsettle a country's foundations'
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This year should mark another year of growth in the United States. That is hardly remarkable. What is remarkable, and perhaps unappreciated, is that growth has become the norm for the American economy.
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Small additions can lead to big changes.
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In the US drug industry, it often takes a disaster to bring change. Not until thousands of European babies were deformed by thalidomide in the late 1950s and early 1960s did Congress raise standards for approvals.
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The United States doesn't have much in the way of productivity in its future according to BLS projections.
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A slowdown in the US will crimp global economic growth in 2007, a report from the OECD predicts.
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It may be risky to race to the certainty that a second Bush administration will lead the United States into a series of confrontations with the world.
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The United States remains the world leader in scientific and technological innovation, but its dominance is threatened by economic development elsewhere, particularly in Asia.
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Some experts say American policymakers are confusing tactical adjustments with a strategy.
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At a time when economists and politicians fret over the future of American manufacturing, Dell isn't just defying a global trend, it's helping to set the standard.
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The world has changed, but the American classroom, for the most part, hasn't. Now educators are starting to look at what must be done to make sure our kids make the grade in the new global economy
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Innovation has become an all-purpose tonic, the default prescription for every pain associated with the retrenching American economy. Whatever the problem -- slower growth, global competition, fewer well-paying jobs -- innovating, we are told, is the solution.
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U.S. Steel has its share of problems. Don't let them become yours.
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There is growth, but it's not homemade.
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By Philpott, Tom  Our flawed federal agricultural policies are long overdue for a major overhaul. Like a barnyard sow basking in the glow of attention at a county fair, the U.S.