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U.S. Manufacturing Capacity Increases for 16th Month in a Row
The Wall Street Journal ^ | October 16, 2018 | Sarah Chaney

Posted on 12/08/2018 5:36:27 PM PST by familyop

WASHINGTON—U.S. manufacturers increased their capacity for the 16th straight month in September, fresh evidence that a strengthening economy is helping to propel a U.S. industrial rebound. The Trump Administration has prioritized increasing manufacturing investment in the U.S. with tax cuts and tariffs on a range of imported goods.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Constitution/Conservatism; Front Page News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: economy; manufacturing
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Yes, it's from October. But some posted facts will neutralize the chatter coming from southeast Asia.

First base. Batter up! MAGA!

1 posted on 12/08/2018 5:36:27 PM PST by familyop
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To: familyop

Why does the stock market hate America? The economic numbers are great, the markets are down?


2 posted on 12/08/2018 5:42:38 PM PST by JoSixChip (He is Batman!)
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To: JoSixChip

It’s the Fed. Trump is pedal to the metal. There will be damage to the extremities but it’s necessary.


3 posted on 12/08/2018 5:51:55 PM PST by DIRTYSECRET (urope. Why do they put up with this.)
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To: JoSixChip

The answer to those questions would be very long and include many causes. To add a speck of light to the confusion generally seen from news organizations, some market indexes include manufacturing based in the U.S. but with actual production happening overseas. Other reports come from surveys of manufacturing on U.S. soil.

Wall Street is loaded with import interests, and a large portion of investors derive their incomes from the various levels of government in bed with foreign national interests—mostly anti-Trump interests.


4 posted on 12/08/2018 5:59:05 PM PST by familyop ("Welcome to Costco. I love you." - -Costco greeter in the movie, "Idiocracy")
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ISM: U.S. Manufacturing Growth To Continue Throughout 2018
https://www.inddist.com/news/2018/05/ism-us-manufacturing-growth-continue-throughout-2018


5 posted on 12/08/2018 6:00:38 PM PST by familyop ("Welcome to Costco. I love you." - -Costco greeter in the movie, "Idiocracy")
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To: JoSixChip

I ask that question over and over. Something seems weird. There’s always some flimsy stupid excuse. I swear that someone is trying to sink the market and blame Trump so he can’t take credit for a great economy. This is killing our retirement.


6 posted on 12/08/2018 6:14:54 PM PST by lilypad
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To: familyop; Jim Robinson

First order of business for President Trump was bringing manufacturing back from China. Many years ago, probably when Clinton was President, the Chinese bought and packed up our shuttered steel mills. It has since been one of my nightmares that the US couldn’t fight a world war without Chinese manufacturing.

I’m very patient. If our steel mills are put back to work, and coal mines, and oil production, then we have a better chance of stalling the onset of the next world war. With Mattis quietly going about rebuilding the Armed Forces, maybe my grandchildren will have a future to fight for.

Maybe.


7 posted on 12/08/2018 6:18:49 PM PST by The Westerner (Protect the most vulnerable: get the government out of medicine, education and the forests.)
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To: The Westerner; Jim Robinson

5 DEC 2018
US Steel Imports Down
https://www.ssyonline.com/news-events/posts/2018/december/us-steel-imports-down/


8 posted on 12/08/2018 6:30:56 PM PST by familyop ("Welcome to Costco. I love you." - -Costco greeter in the movie, "Idiocracy")
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To: The Westerner; Jim Robinson

Steel Imports Down 11% Year-to-Date Through October
American Steel Institute
November 27, 2018
https://www.steel.org/news/2018/11/october-2018-steel-imports


9 posted on 12/08/2018 6:36:04 PM PST by familyop ("Welcome to Costco. I love you." - -Costco greeter in the movie, "Idiocracy")
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To: familyop; Jim Robinson

Steel as in ammo, tanks, guns. I’m watching the steel industry closely. The Great Lakes are humming now. Trump’s administration green lighted a long delayed repair to one of the big locks that ships pass through in Ste St Marie. I believe it was 30 years past due for expansion/repair. Trump is working on the fundamentals this term.


10 posted on 12/08/2018 6:38:19 PM PST by The Westerner (Protect the most vulnerable: get the government out of medicine, education and the forests.)
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To: familyop

Of all the disheartening news, this particular stat brings joy to my heart. I know that the next Socialist Democrat President will do everything possible to finish what the previous 4 Presidents began. Let’s hope our President desires to fight for a second term and that we can give him the support he’ll need to win it.


11 posted on 12/08/2018 6:41:36 PM PST by The Westerner (Protect the most vulnerable: get the government out of medicine, education and the forests.)
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To: The Westerner
If our steel mills are put back to work, and coal mines, and oil production, then we have a better chance of stalling the onset of the next world war.

I don't think our next big war is going to depend on steel and oil like the ones early last century.

12 posted on 12/08/2018 7:01:34 PM PST by semimojo
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To: familyop
I used to track factory capacity utilization as an early indicator of industrial market softness, because when factoris have unused capacity they are not going to make new capital investments or purchase additional plants and equipment. In the early 2000s it was running less than 50% every month, look at it now:

Thanks to Trumponomics, manufacturing is returning to the US and new capex spending is occurring as factories need to expand. MAGA!

13 posted on 12/08/2018 7:33:06 PM PST by bigbob (Trust Trump. Trust the Plan.)
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To: JoSixChip

Markets are still up huge from Nov 8, 2016. Corrections are normal and healthy. They are typically forward looking, and take it from first hand experience, they are worried a recession is coming.


14 posted on 12/08/2018 7:36:15 PM PST by rb22982
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To: familyop

Markets are really reacting to the uncertainty of a dem House fighting against Trump. Lots of other things are being floated, but they are small compared to a dem House.


15 posted on 12/08/2018 7:55:58 PM PST by Revolutionary ("Praise the Lord and Pass the Ammunition!")
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To: The Westerner

The Chinese just last month, set an all-time high in their trade surplus with America.

Biggest ever.

I know Trump has been focused on the issue, but we are currently running the largest trade deficit in recorded history with China.

Biggest ever. Between any two countries.

See for yourself:

https://census.gov/foreign-trade/balance/c5700.html


16 posted on 12/08/2018 8:03:40 PM PST by cba123 ( Toi la nguoi My. Toi bay gio o Viet Nam.)
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To: Revolutionary
"Markets are really reacting to the uncertainty of a dem House fighting against Trump. Lots of other things are being floated, but they are small compared to a dem House."

Agreed, and that was our fault. We shouldn't let it happen again.


17 posted on 12/08/2018 8:31:51 PM PST by familyop ("Welcome to Costco. I love you." - -Costco greeter in the movie, "Idiocracy")
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To: JoSixChip

It’s because they are beholden to the globalist/no-border/free-trade agenda.


18 posted on 12/08/2018 9:56:14 PM PST by Vaden (First they came for the Confederates... Next they came for Washington... Then they came...)
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To: cba123

Yes, there’s going to be rough times ahead, the price we must pay to extract ourselves from a new mutual assured destruction. Fundamentally, manufacturing is the core of a nation’s independence. Take a look at steel stats above.


19 posted on 12/09/2018 12:12:59 AM PST by The Westerner (Protect the most vulnerable: get the government out of medicine, education and the forests.)
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To: semimojo

Yes, heard that before, many times. As long as Mattis and his troops are well supplied, the cyber warriors are going to be equally important.

Personally, I watch shipping lanes, and who controls chokepoints.


20 posted on 12/09/2018 12:16:12 AM PST by The Westerner (Protect the most vulnerable: get the government out of medicine, education and the forests.)
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