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bandrami04/03/20254 repliesview on HN

US industrial output is the highest it has ever been. Where did you get the idea that we "deindustrialized"?


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rayiner04/03/2025

US industrial output is much lower than it has been relative to our consumption. We should mostly make in the country the industrial products we consume.

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smallmancontrov04/03/2025

By looking at where things are made rather than by using hedonic adjustments to multiply up INTC revenue until it hides the problem (or whatever the strategy is today now that INTC is flagging).

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kelipso04/03/2025

Do people actually believe this? Maybe industrial output according to some cooked up numbers or specific industries.

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jopython04/03/2025

We lost 6 million manufacturing jobs over the past decade.

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