Wednesday, May 18, 2011

The Great Untold Manufacturing Success Story

Consider this chart from Kash over at the Streetlight Blog:


Manufacturing has been a very bright spot for the economy during this recovery. However, it has largely gone unnoticed for two reasons. The political left is wedded to the idea that "US manufacturing is dead" while the political right doesn't want to point out any success story in the economy.

Yet, here we are, with manufacturing doing very well.