[discostu]

Who cares. Container ships aren’t in the equation.

It’s simple math:
N = number of factories
C = their average capacity
N * C = X aka total output

Now in 1999 they all had certain value which we can just subscript as 1, so 1999:
N1 * C1 = X1

Now for 2016 N2 is drastically less than N1, and X2 is drastically higher than X1, but the equation remains the same:
N2 * C2 = X2
Which means C2 could ONLY have ONE relationship to C1. It MUST BE HIGHER.

Output probably wouldn’t be up if the factories had stayed, because that would have been a bad economic decision and the companies would have gone bankrupt, which results in EVEN FEWER factories AND LOWER output. Even people who can’t complete a post without insults can see that.

Face it, the math doesn’t back you. Never has, never will. That’s why protectionists are spitting into the wind. You want up to be down, but up is always up.

[central_va]

Output probably wouldn’t be up if the factories had stayed, because that would have been a bad economic decision and the companies would have gone bankrupt, which results in EVEN FEWER factories AND LOWER output. Even people who can’t complete a post without insults can see that.

Probably? Ridiculous, the factory capacity was moved off shore and goods produced in those factories comes back in containers every single day. Explain that buckwheat.

[central_va]

We make no consumer electronics in the USA . Stick that in your formula machine and shove it pal. Formulas don’t work on non existent factories do they?