Economy & Business

If you want to find out how to bring manufacturing jobs back from Asia, one route might be to start with someone who’s done it. Matt Turpin is CEO of Zentech, an electronics manufacturer in Baltimore, Maryland. His company manufactures goods or components for other companies.

“We’ve brought back probably four projects in the past two years,” he said. There are “probably 30 people associated with those projects.”

Markets had their own opinions about the first presidential debate of 2016. 

The Mexican peso was up 2.1 percent, reflecting a belief that Hillary Clinton had prevailed. 

Financial markets chimed in as well.

“Equity markets rose in price after the debates,” said S&P Global Market Intelligence’s Sam Stovall. Pundits, he said, have taken this to mean that “the market viewed the outcome to be favorable to the Clinton camp.”

There’s a widely held belief that millennials strongly prefer living in cities over the suburbs. Companies like GE and McDonald’s say they are shifting headquarters from suburban campuses to cities in large part to be more attractive to younger workers.

Tesla and SpaceX head Elon Musk held an event today talking about his vision for humanity as a "multiplanetary species."

He first told us about that plan, using that exact language, five years ago this summer. We were talking about SpaceX's rockets, and I asked about longer-term plans. Where should this country go in space?

Elon Musk has another out-of-this-world idea: He wants to form a colony on Mars. The SpaceX and Tesla CEO spoke at the International Astronautical Congress in Guadalajara, Mexico, today about his plan to create a civilization on the Red Planet.

During Monday night’s debate, Donald Trump reminded us that  lowering the corporate tax rate is central to his plan to increase jobs.

“All you have to do is take a look at Carrier air conditioning in Indianapolis. They left — fired 1,400 people. They’re going to Mexico. So many hundreds and hundreds of companies are doing this,” he said in his opening statement.

In last night's presidential debate a lot of ground was covered, including the Trans-Pacific Partnership, Hillary Clinton's email scandal and Donald Trump's tax returns. But one thing noticeably missing from the discussion? Minimum wage. 

Trump did not mention it at all, and Clinton mentioned it just once in her opening statement: