Although the number of manufacturing jobs in the United States has stagnated, dropping 12 percent from a high in the early 1980s, the number of retail jobs has risen 43 percent.

If China decides to start investing in the United States and bringing some manufacturing over here, that might make sense, this would be as likely a place as any because it's comfortable. You have port access, and some companies they already work with.

The silver lining in this trend is that we could gain some manufacturing jobs in the United States.

What are the odds that a nuclear emergency like the one at Fukushima Dai-ichi could happen in the central or eastern United States? They'd have to be astronomical, right?

We began building a model similar to that here in the United States.

The city of New Orleans knows full well that they are bound by the constitutions of the United States and the state of Louisiana. Both constitutions require real prior notice and a meaningful opportunity to be heard before the government can take or destroy anyone's property.