[forester]

The single biggest contributor to the flight of jobs overseas is not regulations and subsidies, but a U.S. dollar that has been the strongest currency in the world by a wide margin over the last 15 years.

So manufacturing will come back now that the dollar has lost 20% of it's value?

[Alberta's Child]

Not necessarily. Nobody is going to shut down a plant in Malaysia and move back to the U.S. just because the dollar has lost 20% of its value in recent months. The issue isn't where the dollar is today, but where someone thinks it's going to be over the next couple of decades.