Nina Easton of Fortune wishes President Obama would spend more time listening to retiring Caterpillar chairman Jim Owens:
Obama tapped Owens for his Economic Recovery Advisory Board, and Owens often surfaces in photo ops meant to show that the White House is reaching out to business leaders. But don’t confuse appearance with substance: If the President actually took Owens’s advice on how to help U.S. companies compete globally, he’d do a 180 on trade.
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When Owens looks around the globe, he sees the leaders of developing countries moving aggressively to remove trade barriers, while the U.S. sits on the sidelines.
