Is manufacturing back? At the very least, manufacturing is back in fashion, judging from the high profile conference last hursday at the Newseum in downtown Washington DC. Amid panoramic views of the historic monuments and buildings of the Capitol, a bevy of high profile speakers, including Democratic Whip Steny Hoyer, Chairman and CEO of General Electric [GE] Jeff Immelt, John Engler, President and CEO of Business Roundtable, Senators Mary Landrieu, Michael Bennet, John McCain and Amy Klobuchar, and Susan Lund, Director of Research at the McKinsey Global Institute along with many others, passionately declared their support for a proposition that would have been considered ridiculous in policy discussions only a short while ago: manufacturing matters. …read more
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