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The Week That’s Done: The Smartphone Space Race

March 5, 2023

The satellite space race is heating up—and China sees it as the next battlefield in the mobile communications contest. Plus: markets overreact to Tesla’s ex-rare earths announcement, Beijing's lithium crackdown, and Britain’s salad crisis. And banger factory activity in China contrasts with contraction in the US.

2023-03-05T09:29:18-05:00#manufacturing #rare earths #satellite |
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A Four-Step Plan for Re-Industrialization

By Harry Moser
January 11, 2023

The US needs to create the conditions in which companies see the advantage of investing in the United States. This piece outlines four steps to do so; a four-step, feasible, and immediate path toward American re-industrialization.

2023-01-16T10:51:48-05:00#industrial policy #manufacturing #re-industrialization |
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Warning Signs for Global Manufacturing

January 7, 2023

The Producer Manufacturing Index is flashing red, globally, showing contraction across the US, China, Japan, Singapore, France, and Germany.

2023-01-07T16:20:38-05:00#manufacturing #PMI |
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The Week That’s Done: December 4

December 4, 2022

Dampening inflation spurs enthusiasm, but where is the attention to contraction in the US manufacturing index? Plus: A roller coaster week for the growing US-EU trade spat, relaxation in China's COVID Zero restrictions, and a nascent EV industry shift to sodium-ion batteries.

2022-12-04T15:43:39-05:00#batteries #Brazil #COVID-19 #manufacturing #US-EU relations |
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US Manufacturing Is at a Tipping Point: It’s Time To Realize Making Matters

By Thomas Mahoney
September 23, 2022

Before US manufacturing crosses the Rubicon, the country needs a broad-based consensus that manufacturing matters; with it the foundation for a national manufacturing strategy that both government and the private sector buy into. 

2022-09-25T14:30:02-04:00#manufacturing #national strategy |
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The Week That’s Done: August 7

August 7, 2022

Across wheat, gas, steel, the shortage crisis has calmed - but (largely) because of dropping demand, not rising supply. With manufacturing slumping, future food production threatened, buffer eroded, what happens next? Plus: Storm clouds gather in the UK and China throws a temper tantrum.

2022-09-26T12:27:01-04:00#agriculture #manufacturing #oil and gas #steel #Taiwan |
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The Week That’s Done: July 3

July 3, 2022

The good news: It's a long weekend. The bad: California can't figure out supply and demand, US manufacturing is slowing, and the G7's price cap scheme doesn't mean much. Plus: Things look even worse in Europe, copper's drop might just be a blip, will the chemical industry move to China?

2022-09-26T12:29:46-04:00#automotive #California #inflation #manufacturing |
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