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| Brexit Scaremongers in Retreat as British Manufacturing and Retail Sales Surge |
| 2017-09-06 |
"Britain’s manufacturers are enjoying buoyant conditions on the back of export markets going from strength to strength," announced the Engineering Employers Federation (EEF) in a press release, following a "major survey" of some 416 manufacturing firms. "Manufacturers appear to have taken the recent political upheaval in their stride," noted EEF chief economist Lee Hopley, with the cheaper pound boosting British firms’ competitiveness abroad ‐ as experts predicted. |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #5 Because the US is a nation that consumes, rather than saves. China's stuff is cheap because it's built by slave labor (their competitive advantage) and carries little/no tariffs. So we buy Chinese (or Vietnamese or Indonesian, whoever's cheapest) as fast as we can. Straight economics at work. |
| Posted by: Glomosing Omainter7636 2017-09-06 12:37 |
| #4 Commenters #2 and #3 have answered correctly. The purse will be divided equally. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2017-09-06 12:04 |
| #3 Willsomeone please tell me why the United States actually needs Chinese imports ? Kickbacks? |
| Posted by: Pappy 2017-09-06 11:46 |
| #2 So corporations like Hewlett-Packard can have their stuff manufactured by cheap slave labor. |
| Posted by: Abu Uluque 2017-09-06 11:34 |
| #1 Will someone please tell me why the United States actually needs Chinese imports ? |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2017-09-06 08:49 |