U.S. Manufacturing
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11 statements about U.S. Manufacturing, every show
Packaged Food Was One-Fifth of US Manufacturing by 1900
“By 1900, one-fifth of all U.S. Manufacturing is packaged food.”
Oetting: Trump Will Boost US Manufacturing Share, But Under 13.1% GDP
“I think that the Trump administration will bring, will make a big dent on that, that will improve, but I don't think it'll hit 13.1%.”
Smith: US factory construction boomed under Biden after decades of stagnation
“But when you look at factory construction, real, real factory construction, you saw this enormous, you saw it basically flat at a flat level for decades and decades at a fairly low level. Then you saw this enormous boom during the Biden years and all the facto…”
Vulcan CEO John Maslin is bullish on manufacturing under Trump
“I'm bullish. I think he's already doing it. I can think of a couple of projects, you know, personally in the rare space where we can really put our thumb on the scale and make that happen. I think it's going to take an entire government and industry coalition …”
Bessent: Tariffs and tax incentives could spark U.S. construction boom
“I think we could have this massive construction boom And then the factories get populated, and part of President Trump's one big beautiful bill, the most powerful part of that is the hundred percent immediate expensing of equipment, and we also did it for fact…”
Khanna: Strategic tariffs alone will not suffice to restore US manufacturing
“I just don't think that's going to be enough for us to Have pill factories here have the steel factories, aluminum factories to revitalize these areas and to look at what is the investment.”
Andreessen: Rebuilding US manufacturing requires AI and robotic factories
“The only prospect for rebuilding US manufacturing is advanced manufacturing. So the only potential is to climb the tech stack and build new kinds of factories that are fully robotic and fully AI enabled and where, you know, they are extremely advanced, sophist…”
Lubbershane: Major IRA manufacturing provisions will be politically difficult to rescind
“I think it would be very difficult, both, both from a pure political standpoint and from a political economy standpoint, to rescind some of the major features of the IRA at this point that are supporting development of new manufacturing facilities in many case…”
Ryan Holiday: All Daily Stoic products are manufactured in the US
“I could get them done. We were talking about margins. They would be much cheaper for me to make them in, in large books, like from China. But we haven't done that. We've always used this original place. I wanted to do made in USA, but then, and then as it happ…”
Inker: US manufacturing productivity has been net negative since 2011
“Productivity growth has been net negative. We are less productive making stuff than we were in 2011.”