Why the US Cannot Reverse Its Manufacturing Decline

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Nov 3, 2025, 1:23:49 PM (2 days ago) Nov 3

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Mission Impossible: Why the US Cannot Reverse Its Manufacturing Decline Posted on November 3, 2025 by Yves Smith

Steve Keen highlighted a YouTube video on why the US manufacturing goose is cooked and will stay cooked. The points it makes are broader than the observation we have repeatedly made, that for the US to have any hope of resoring its industrial capacity, it will require way more than just tariffs but sustained industrial policy. But as we will explains, it also is romantically anchored in a past of manufacturing as a generator of many and good middle class jobs, when production is now highly automated and requires few if any workers.....