How much economic stimulus do you think tax cuts will bring? Not much, according to  the U.S. Business and Industry Council. Their argument is that so much manufacturing has gone overseas that it is almost impossible to spend money  on something produced domestically. So any tax rebate to consumers will go toward increasing the trade ...

 This hit my inbox this afternoon from the Alliance for American Manufacturing after the Commerce Dept. jobs report of this morning:       According to the latest figures from the Commerce Department, the United States lost another 31,000 manufacturing jobs in December in addition to the 13,000 lost in November.  For ...