'Made in America' Won't Be as Simple as it Sounds

To u nderstand America’s dependence on global supply chains, you need to start with the Cold War. What drove U.S. foreign policy and the behavior of most nations — and the world’s larger corporations — was where they sat in relation to Moscow and Washington.

Then Japan boomed and tripped; the two Germanys merged. China started its ascent; India began producing tens of thousands of engineering PhDs. Europe experimented with when its aggregated sovereignties could be flamboyantly displayed — like antitrust policy — and when not. Other nations such as North Korea, Iran and Venezuela flirted with edgy, dangerous, attention-grabbing contrarianism. Read Full Article »