Why China is Beating US in Manufacturing

From the NYT:

“They could hire 3,000 people overnight,” said Jennifer Rigoni, who was Apple’s worldwide supply demand manager until 2010, but declined to discuss specifics of her work. “What U.S. plant can find 3,000 people overnight and convince them to live in dorms?”

Something tells me that this is a lot closer to the truth than a lot of people would like to admit.

About me

Jeremy Derr grew up in the Houston Astrodome, witnessing the end of the Nolan Ryan era and the birth of the Killers Bs. He was an inaugural season ticket holder for the Houston Aeros in 1994, the same for the Texas Stars in 2009, played Junior Olympic inline hockey as a youth, and both plays and referees USA Hockey matches in Austin, Texas.

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