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May 12, 2025
manufacturing decline
May 12, 2025
The Real Reasons Manufacturing Declined

Rather than outsourcing to China, the real reasons for the U.S. decline in manufacturing will help us construct a valid economic plan.

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April 7, 2025
manufacturing jobs
April 7, 2025
Why Did Manufacturing Decline?

Looking at the steady slide in the number of U.S. manufacturing jobs, we see structural change with several causes.

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September 20, 2024
t-shirt container and the port strike
September 20, 2024
When a Box Is More Than a Container

With East Coast dockworkers threatening a port strike, their concerns take us to the job and cost dilemmas of automation.

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September 1, 2024
job markets
September 1, 2024
The Knocker Upper and Other Jobs We No Longer Need

Never static, as job markets evolve with growing and declining occupations, a painful process can bfuel economic growth.

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September 25, 2023
Tesla charging station
September 25, 2023
How the 1930s UAW Strike Is Like Today

Comparing two UAW strikes, we can see that the 1930s and 2023 are really not that different when we look at a changing economy.

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October 31, 2022
household spending
October 31, 2022
The Future of the Mall

Remembering the shopping malls that are gone and those that remain, we can ask how different their future will be.

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June 22, 2022
changing job markets and bank robbers
June 22, 2022
Where Have All of the Bank Robbers Gone?

Even looking at bank robbers, we see that technological innovation creates the changing job markets that wind up as structural unemployment.

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April 19, 2022
working at home and dog walkers
April 19, 2022
How Home Work Created Assignments For Dog Walkers

Having shifted to more working at home, we initiated a ripple of changes for the people that do our dog walking.

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May 24, 2021
losing leap seconds
May 24, 2021
When a Tap Told the Time

Undergoing structural change, the 19th century British economy had the problem of factory workers that could not afford alarm clocks.

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November 17, 2020
Weekly Economic News Roundup and U.S. manufacturing
November 17, 2020
6 Updated Facts: What Happened to Manufacturing?

A manufacturing update reveals the impact from tariffs and other reasons that our economy is experiencing major changes.

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May 21, 2020
economic news roundup and coronavirus inspired innovations
May 21, 2020
The Innovations That a Pandemic Inspires

During wartime, recessions, and now a pandemic, big and small firms have the incentive to create innovations that respond to the disaster.

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November 23, 2018
Weekly Economic News Roundup and the magazine industry
November 23, 2018
When a Magazine Cover Counts

While some food magazines use the Thanksgiving cover of their print edition to compete, most of the magazine industry is figuring out a digital shift.

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