Complaints about China’s Factory Output Keep Getting Louder
Bloomberg reports China’s factory glut has alarmed the world, but there’s no quick fix. They write:
The groundswell of complaints about China’s factory output keeps...
National Security Risk: Shortage of Fuel Powering U.S. Missiles
Drew FitzGerald of The Wall Street Journal tells his readers how a U.S. missile supplier’s effort to make a key chemical has struggled to...
U.S. vs. China: China Has Over Two Hundred Times the Ship Building Compacity
Lauren Williams of DefenseOne reports that China is winning the shipbuilding numbers game—and that’s a problem. Williams writes:
“The navy has been on a...
China EV Makers Could Avoid Hefty Tariffs
River Davis, Ryan Felton, and Selina Cheng of The Wall Street Journal explain that a mix of engineering, government subsidies, and lower labor costs helps BYD and...
The Multibillion-Dollar Bet on Freight Industry
Cummins, Daimler, and Paccar are joining forces to build a plant in Mississippi that will make batteries for electric commercial trucks, reports Bob Tita...
Despite Biden’s Subsidies, Arizona Semiconductor Plant Facing New Delays
Yang Jie and Yuka Hayashi of The Wall Street Journal report a setback in Biden's favorite project to rebuild chip manufacturing in the U.S. They write:
Taiwanese...
Labor Costs Rise – Are Robots Standing Ready?
Nora Eckert of The Wall Street Journal tells her readers that expensive new union contracts are causing automakers to look to an old friend...
EV Battery Supplier Drops Plan for Factory in Oklahoma
River Davis of The Wall Street Journal is reporting that site conditions and potential subsidies coupled with uncertainty in EV business growth caused Panasonic...
U.S. Manufacturing Flexing Its Muscles
Colin Grabow of the Cato Institute is reporting that the United States remains a manufacturing powerhouse. He writes:
It has become conventional wisdom among many...
The War Machine’s Manpower Problem
No, I'm not talking about the U.S. military's failure to recruit its intended numbers of new servicemen, but the labor shortages plaguing the military-industrial...