US - Economics and Politics

Charles Kenny on Manufacturing Jobs 

http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2014-01-23/manufacturing-jobs-may-not-be-cure-for-unemployment-inequality

Steven Rattner on US Industrial Rebound
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/26/opinion/sunday/rattner-the-myth-of-industrial-rebound.html

The Atlantic - Highly Educated, Highly Indebted: The Lives of Today's 27-Year-Olds, In Charts

http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2014/01/highly-educated-highly-indebted-the-lives-of-todays-27-year-olds-in-charts/283263/

NYTIMES columnist David Brooks on economic mobility

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/24/opinion/brooks-it-takes-a-generation.html

Prominent Harvard economist Jeffrey Frankel on US leadership in international economic affairs
http://www.project-syndicate.org/print/jeffrey-frankel-blames-the-us-congress-for-undermining-america-s-global-leadership