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US manufacturing has been shrinking for 14 months straight. (www.marketwatch.com)
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This is a good indicator that the real economy is collapsing, and explains why the regime is unable stop neither their recession nor inflation.

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[–] UraniumGears@lemmygrad.ml 14 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I wonder if the United States were ever to become socialist, if the country would have to undergo a period of re-industrialization just because so much American industry has been outsourced. China's manufacturing prowess in comparison is only going to continue to grow.

[–] yogthos@lemmygrad.ml 11 points 9 months ago

I expect so, after so many decades of financialization of the economy, a lot of important industries have been moved out of the country. This was a great read on the underlying dynamics incidentally https://americanaffairsjournal.org/2021/08/the-value-of-nothing-capital-versus-growth/

[–] JoeDaRedTrooperYT@lemmygrad.ml 12 points 9 months ago (1 children)

That kids is why you never outsource to other countries

[–] kig_v2@lemmygrad.ml 15 points 9 months ago

We should be happy their quarterly short-sightedness allowed them to let China completely pin them in a chokehold, the 2020s could have gone very different if they weren't so foolish!