Boost economy with clean energy industry

When it comes to America's financial crisis, there's plenty of blame to go around. You don't have to dig far into the toxic sludge of bad credit, soaring deficits, fiscal mismanagement, and deregulation to see that all of it blends together to form a really big mess. And you don't need a PhD in economics to know that the financial market meltdown is a warning sign that America's economy is in desperate need of an overhaul.

Leaders of nations, just like executives of financial institutions, are responsible for understanding and responding to new market signals. And as we've learned in the last few months, when they don't, the economies of great nations -- just like the credit worthiness of corporate giants -- can crumble with frightening speed.

Which brings me to the biggest emerging market opportunity of our lifetime. That, of course, is the opportunity to galvanize American technology, workers, ingenuity and courage to do something truly great: building a clean energy, good jobs, made-in-America economy that will power our nation forward in the 21st Century.

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