Open Thread

“The US is the largest manufacturer in the world (though China may have recently passed us). Planes, medical electronics, fiber optics, semiconductors, cars, construction equipment, supercomputers and the list goes on. Don’t judge the manufacturing sector by consumer products.”

Hmmm. Good to know. Are a lot of those jobs ones you can do without a college degree? Like the dudes that used to work for the steel in PA and OH, can they do these jobs instead?

Instead of whining about it 🙂 you could also invest in foreign stocks and make money on globalization.

I bet most WMT suppliers’ stocks have done far better than WMT’s share price which has essentially been flat since 2000.

“Retraining.”
To do what?
Work in any industry that’s growing, which includes most service industries, telecommunications, technology (think solar for example).”

Service industry is really an industry and the wages aren’t too good.
Telecom – those jobs will be hit too if the T-Mobile merger goes down.
Solar would be a good gig for people but I thought the technology to do this on a mass scale isn’t in place yet. I guess that’s why the govt has to invest in research on this stuff.

I am glad the move went well and that your wife is better. That is pretty amazing that she had pneumonia, took antibiotics and was going to dinner a day or two later.