Friday, February 15, 2019
Chart of the Day: Manufacturing Employment Edition
From Bloomberg:
While the number of manufacturing jobs is up from the low set during the Great Recession, the total is still lower than any other time since 1950. Unfortunately, I believe it will plumb new lows in the next recession, and will almost certainly never get back to pre-2008 levels. A few of the reasons for that are that manufacturing is hard, it is extremely capital-intensive, and new technology is eliminating the need for some employees. It is a lot easier to make money in advertising or mergers and acquisitions or technology.
Monday, February 11, 2019
Early February Links
Some of my favorite stories from the previous week:
After the abuse Jackie Robinson endured, Frank Robinson refused to take it - Chicago Tribune
Farmers nearing crisis push back on Trump trade policies – Politico and ‘This One Here Is Gonna Kick My Butt’—Farm Belt Bankruptcies Are Soaring – Wall Street Journal
Is Fear Driving Sales Of Monsanto's Dicamba-Proof Soybeans? - The Salt
Long, strange trip: How U.S. ethanol reaches China tariff-free - Reuters
A Water Crisis Is Growing In A Place You'd Least Expect It - NPR
In Era of Drought, Phoenix Prepares for a Future Without Colorado River Water - Yale Environment 360. Part 4 in a series.
CNX reports suspected cause of Utica Shale well problem near Beaver Run Reservoir - Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
How ‘Interior Landmarks’ Redeemed New York – The American Conservative and Architectural history hidden by Detroit ceilings for years - Detroit Free Press
Fight the Ship - Death and valor on a warship doomed by its own Navy. – ProPublica
The Five Families of Feces – New York Magazine
Abuse of Faith - Houston Chronicle and San Antonio Express-News. This is Spotlight-level investigative reporting.
A Tennessee clinic swindled the military out of $65M. This is how it got caught – The Tennessean
Simon Institute research shows state funding disparities benefit downstate - SIU News. According to this, the suburbs, and to some extent Chicago, get hammered to benefit rural areas.
‘My whole town practically lived there’: From Costa Rica to New Jersey, a pipeline of illegal workers for Trump goes back years - Washington Post
The hypocrisy of Trump’s jobs claims, in one chart - Vox (chart from Aaron Sojourner)
After the abuse Jackie Robinson endured, Frank Robinson refused to take it - Chicago Tribune
Farmers nearing crisis push back on Trump trade policies – Politico and ‘This One Here Is Gonna Kick My Butt’—Farm Belt Bankruptcies Are Soaring – Wall Street Journal
Is Fear Driving Sales Of Monsanto's Dicamba-Proof Soybeans? - The Salt
Long, strange trip: How U.S. ethanol reaches China tariff-free - Reuters
A Water Crisis Is Growing In A Place You'd Least Expect It - NPR
In Era of Drought, Phoenix Prepares for a Future Without Colorado River Water - Yale Environment 360. Part 4 in a series.
CNX reports suspected cause of Utica Shale well problem near Beaver Run Reservoir - Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
How ‘Interior Landmarks’ Redeemed New York – The American Conservative and Architectural history hidden by Detroit ceilings for years - Detroit Free Press
Fight the Ship - Death and valor on a warship doomed by its own Navy. – ProPublica
The Five Families of Feces – New York Magazine
Abuse of Faith - Houston Chronicle and San Antonio Express-News. This is Spotlight-level investigative reporting.
A Tennessee clinic swindled the military out of $65M. This is how it got caught – The Tennessean
Simon Institute research shows state funding disparities benefit downstate - SIU News. According to this, the suburbs, and to some extent Chicago, get hammered to benefit rural areas.
‘My whole town practically lived there’: From Costa Rica to New Jersey, a pipeline of illegal workers for Trump goes back years - Washington Post
The hypocrisy of Trump’s jobs claims, in one chart - Vox (chart from Aaron Sojourner)
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