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Economists said before a report today that manufacturing probably picked up in the U.S. in March, showing it is weathering a slowdown in global growth. The Institute for Supply Management’s factory index climbed to 53 from 52.4 in February, according to a median estimate of 55 economists surveyed by Bloomberg News. Readings greater than 50 […]
Playing the U.S. Manufacturing Boom Written by: Jack Hough for The Wall Street Journal Jack Hough is a columnist at SmartMoney.com Email: jack.hough@dowjones.com Investors who have favored emerging markets like China in recent years should pay attention to another growing manufacturing center. It boasts plenty of skilled workers; cheap and abundant energy; stable institutions; and a large […]
Written by: Sam Ro for Business Insider – Money Game Contact:e-mail:sro@businessinsider.com Subscribe to his twitter feed America is making stuff again.The Wall Street Journal‘s Jack Hough wrote an article about the hot new idea economists are buzzing about: the American manufacturing boom.Hough spoke to Bank of America Merrill Lynch economist Neil Dutta who identified three trends that lay the foundation to a […]
By Teresa Dixon Murray, The Plain Dealer If housing was growing now at the pace it was until 2006, unemployment would likely be 2 percentage points lower and economic growth would be 2 points higher. And if Americans spent just $100 billion on U.S. goods instead of foreign goods – a gap that has widened the last […]
LINCOLNTON, N.C. (AP) — When Bruce Cochrane’s family furniture company became an empty factory, he wouldn’t drive by the building, even though it was just a short ride from home. There were just too many memories of what was — and what he was sure would never be again.Five generations of Cochranes had been furniture […]
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Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro visited Engineering Specialties, Inc. in North Branford to see the manufacture of evacuated tube solar thermal collectors for Apricus, also a North Branford company. Left to right: Apricus Vice President Nigel Ruddell, Apricus engineer Eric Skiba, Rosa, ESI’s Vice President Carmen Ciardiello, ESI’s President Ronald Delfini, and Apricus marketing person Shannon Horsley. […]
Andy Manis/Bloomberg News: Maurcie Johnson, left, and Diandre Jackson stacked locks at the Master Lock plant in Milwaukee in January. By EDUARDO PORTER of the New York Times on April 3, 2012 E-mail: eporter@nytimes.com Twitter: @portereduardo To hear Mike Bink, one might believe American manufacturing is about to recapture its lost glory.Master Lock, which has made locks in Milwaukee […]
Published in today’s BUSINESS INSIDER Article by: Dean Baker, CEPR | Apr. 4, 2012, Dean Baker is the co-director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research Contact: Mr. Dean Baker Subscribe to his RSS feed Eduardo Porter had an interesting column in the NYT discussing the future of manufacturing jobs in the U.S. economy and the role of trade. While […]
By: Elizabeth Peterson, BusinessNewsDaily Contributor Lawson Nickol, founder and president of the All American Clothing Company, doesn’t talk about business in terms of profit and loss. Instead, he measures his success as a businessman by how well he sleeps at night. And lately, he’s been sleeping really well.His online retail and manufacturing company, based in Arcanum, Ohio, is […]
