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Apple has been in the process of moving some of its manufacturing back to the USA for about a decade now.  They have a plant in Austin the produces Macs, and are expanding their facilities here with another new plant scheduled to open in the next year or two.  I suspect several similar companies, including my own, to follow in the near future.

Still, a ton of the subtier components are manufactured in China.  Shifting that production elsewhere is actually a much more difficult challenge.  

Apple sells a lot in China, that was my only point.  Some other US companies do as well.  It will be interesting to see how we (and others) respond.  The EU nations usually are willing to deal with anyone if there is a buck to be made.

A lot is relative to what. Apple does about 4x the sales in the US and 2x the sales in EU as they do in China.

If lawmakers cracked down and got tough (a pure fantasy- it’d never happen the lawmakers are controlled by big business here) which markets do you think Apple would scramble to protect? Hint: not the one that does 4x less business than US market or 2x less than EU market.

That chart is perhaps the most important economic metric we have in terms of "how we feel about things".

This chart isn’t exactly showing the entire picture. Married women never worked in the 40s, 50s, 60s, and hardly in the 70s and 80s. Both husband and wife have to now just to make ends meat. And it says nothing about adjusting for rising costs of living. Cars are way more expensive, as is housing, insurance, everything today. The increases in wage haven’t caught up with increase in costs of living. Americans are in debt up to their eyeballs now just to maintain a standard of living that their parents and grandparents could without taking on a fraction of the debt Americans today do.

I like this chart better:



https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2018/08/07/for-most-us-workers-real-wages-have-barely-budged-for-decades/

https://www.businessnewsdaily.com/11273-real-wages-flat-impact.html


We’re on 40+ years of stagnant wages. And it’s been by design. #FinancializatonOfTheEconomy. #Globalization.

The soy bean farmers were at times "paid" with money from the tariffs (which were on some Chinese goods entering the US).  These trade deals are far too complex for me to assess them.

We have a global economy like it or not, it's fixed in place.  I don't think it will change more than around the edges in reality.

I sure do love it when "Ban whatever I don't like" is the solution...

Planning to go into Illinois politics, Badge? You might fit in down there in Springfield...

Thanks for the insult, I guess?

Probably everywhere. Who knows. Bring it all back here, from wherever. I know they have many factories here though. Levi Strauss is world-wide.