Domestic Manufacturing… What Manufacturing?
Industrial production and capacity utilization did come in right where economists were expecting, but the level at which these numbers are seeing just feels ghastly. Industrial production for May was -1.1% and Capacity utilization was a mere 68.3%. We saw…
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The good news, if you can take any good news from this report, is that the numbers are actually holding up on a year-over-year basis. Production was down more than 13% annually but capacity was up by 0.1%.
The manufacturing was the weak spot where capacity there fell to 65% from 65.6%. You do not even want to see how low the capacity is at manufacturing of autos and parts. If you removed autos, production would have “only” been down by -0.9%.
If the U.S. wants to get its manufacturing game back on, those green manufacturing jobs better start coming to fruition.
Jon C. Ogg
June 16, 2009
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