[Toddsterpatriot]

A nation that manufactures nothing IS nothing.

That's a great point.

We'll only make $3 trillion worth of stuff this year. Who makes more? Should we worry when we produce $4 trillion? Will the warning sign of our demise be $5 trillion? When are we doomed again?

[ancient_geezer]

Hmm, interesting, manfacturing shipments of $403.949 Billion only make up 12% of your 3 trillion in total products

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Hmm, wonder how much is double counted or services as intermediate production steps rather the summation value of final manufactured goods shipped.