The Road to Job Creation is Paved with Green Small-Cap StocksOn Thursday I stated that job creation will be one catalyst that will bring renewable energy infrastructure back into the spotlight in 2010. This job creation is going to come from innovative, small-companies just like it has in the past – and that means small-cap stocks like Chinese wind turbine manufacturer A-Power Energy Generation Systems (Nasdaq: APWR). I featured this company in yesterday's article. Don't be fooled by this company's name, renewable energy is a global industry and even small foreign companies like A-Power are creating jobs for Americans. A-Power's new plant in the U.S will employ over 1,000 workers, not to mention those who will be hired to engineer and build the factory, and those who will eventually install and service turbines on With the official rate of unemployment at 10.2% and the broader U-6 rate at 17.5%, President Obama is focused on real job creation going into 2010. But the old rules from the last three decades of a consumer driven economy don't apply now – we are in an economy of slow growth that will only recover when value is actually created, not just consumed. And several industries that have been reliable job creators – the auto, financial, and residential construction industries to name just a few – are unlikely to grow at a rate that will absorb the hundreds of thousands of unemployed... spacer spacer spacer spacer spacer spacer spacer spacer spacer spacer spacer spacer spacer spacer spacer spacer spacer spacer spacer spacer spacer spacer spacer spacer spacer spacer spacer spacer spacer spacer spacer spacer spacer spacer spacer spacer spacer spacer spacer spacer spacer spacer spacer spacer spacer spacer spacer spacer spacer spacer spacer spacer spacer spacer spacer
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