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D 5 · C 5 · P 5 · Cm 4 4.85
Q We're talking about the manufacturing and the productivity slowdown, but where does this idea of people being able to buy more because of the cheap products that are coming into the market fit in? Because while people may have had a hard time finding jobs, they can buy more with less.
A We do that by trying to adjust for inflation. So if we have very slow inflation, prices aren't going up that much relative to wages. What we'll see is What we call real wage gains. If you get more money for your buck, then your real wage is going up. It turns out that real wages in the United States have been pretty close to flat. Now they've risen the last couple of years, but in the 2000, real wage gains were very, very anemic. Here's where it gets tricky. There's many different measures you can use for inflation. So how much should the price of healthcare weigh in that? How much should the price of rent weigh in that versus the price of a TV? It's very tricky, and you can use some inflation adjustments that show a pretty strongly rising real wage, or that show essentially no wage slowdown in the 2000. You can use PCE.
AI assessment note: “We do that by trying to adjust for inflation.”
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D 5 · C 4 · P 4 · Cm 4 4.30
Q Um, Imagine a world in which it does turn around, like what, what needs to happen for that to happen?
A Oh, you mean what, what do I think would actually cause that to happen? I think, um, one thing would be industrial policy. Uh, I also think that in terms of tariffs, we should have, um, Essentially entirely free trade with, with allies. I think that that would be a wise thing to do because, you know, Japanese manufacturing and European manufacturing don't actually threaten America. In fact, we gain much more from pooling our markets so that we can attain scale similar to what China enjoys because China is pretty much the only competitive threat we face and which all our allies are facing at the same time. And we're fighting with our allies instead of pooling our resources to, to stand up to China. But that's my, you know, that that's, that's a bit of a sidetrack, uh, for me right there. I, I, you know, I, I wrote about all these things pretty extensively during the Biden years, and I thought this is what we ought to be doing. But I think industrial policy is a big missing piece. Um, and also there are various capacity building policies like infrastructure, you know, education. Uh, you know, we need to train manufacturing workforce. Uh, one really reliable thing we see is when we have, like, really good vocational schools, you get better factories. Just train people to work in factories. Uh, Tim Bardic has done a lot of work on that. Um, and then Uh, yeah, pretty much, I, I thin…
AI assessment note: “I think, um, one thing would be industrial policy.”
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D 5 · C 4 · P 4 · Cm 4 4.30
Q Um, Imagine a world in which it does turn around, like what, what needs to happen for that to happen?
A Oh, you mean what, what do I think would actually cause that to happen? I think, um, one thing would be industrial policy. Uh, I also think that in terms of tariffs, we should have, um, Essentially entirely free trade with, with allies. I think that that would be a wise thing to do because, you know, Japanese manufacturing and European manufacturing don't actually threaten America. In fact, we gain much more from pooling our markets so that we can attain scale similar to what China enjoys because China is pretty much the only competitive threat we face and which all our allies are facing at the same time. And we're fighting with our allies instead of pooling our resources to, to stand up to China. But that's my, you know, that that's, that's a bit of a sidetrack, uh, for me right there. I, I, you know, I, I wrote about all these things pretty extensively during the Biden years, and I thought this is what we ought to be doing. But I think industrial policy is a big missing piece. Um, and also there are various capacity building policies like infrastructure, you know, education. Uh, you know, we need to train manufacturing workforce. Uh, one really reliable thing we see is when we have, like, really good vocational schools, you get better factories. Just train people to work in factories. Uh, Tim Bardic has done a lot of work on that. Um, and then Uh, yeah, pretty much, I, I thin…
AI assessment note: “what would actually cause that to happen? I think, um, one thing would be industrial policy.”
