What’s Really Going On with U.S. Manufacturing

On the menu today: This is Dominic Pino filling in for Jim Geraghty. There will be no Morning Jolt tomorrow in observance of Good Friday.

A Reality Check for U.S. Manufacturing

There’s a lot of doom and gloom about U.S. manufacturing, with constant talk of how jobs only disappear, and we don’t make anything here anymore. The trend that these talking points describe is real, and it was very apparent from the late ’90s to the late ’00s, but it has mostly stopped.