The Man Who Breaks Capitalism

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There's a whole lot of myth making going on around offshoring and manufacturing, you know, fleeing the US. I do think now we're seeing a little bit of a rethinking among corporate America about the trend towards offshoringEverything people are realizing and making stuff and trying to carry its own set of risks.

General Electric used to be the most valuable company in the world; now it's practically irrelevant. What happened? Today on the show, we're going to find answers. And to help, we're turning to two writers who have followed the saga closely and written about it brilliantly: Malcolm Gladwell and William Cohan.

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