[the invisib1e hand]

china’s edge: treating people like drones. look how it all falls apart when they demand to be treated like humans.

[SandRat]

Just so long as Unions don’t scuttle it.

[central_va]

Scott = Free Traitor.

[rockinqsranch]

Interesting. BFLR

[Will88]

“Things are getting expensive in China, pure and simple,” Scott told me. “Labor costs have gone up substantially in China. That’s not a mystery to anybody.

But they never, or almost never, tell us to what level those 'expensive' wages have reached in China. One article I read several months back said minimum wage in some areas of China was now $1.59. Guess the Chinese are no longer willing to work for $.50 an hour, but many in Cambodia and Vietnam still are.

More specifics on those production costs would be informative, but they just rarely provide any specifics.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Gee, you mean economics is cyclical?

Who would have ever thought it?

[Oatka]

where people would take machines from the U.S., disassemble them and ship them to China.”

When I was fighting against NAFTA, one of the things I found out was the export-to-Mexico figures the govt were boasting about included the value of the machines that were pulled out of our factories and shipped down there.

[mo]

It’s called a “weak dollar”...and it makes “made in America” easy to export profitably. The weakness of the dollar is an approximation of what the regulatory and tax burden of an American job turns out to be.