Time's cover story (sub required) - how technology (3D printing, advanced analytics), cheaper energy, smarter workers - are all helping the US rev up its manufacturing engine.
"The past several months alone have seen some surprising reversals. Apple, famous for the city-size factories in China that produce its gadgets, decided to assemble one of its Mac computer lines in the U.S. Walmart, which pioneered global sourcing to find the lowest-priced goods for customers, said it would pump up spending with American suppliers by $50 billion over the next decade--and save money by doing so. Airbus will build JetBlue's jets in Alabama. Meanwhile, in North Carolina's furniture industry, which has lost 70,000 jobs to rivals abroad, Ashley Furniture is investing at least $80 million to build a new plant. "If you go back 10 years, we didn't think we'd be manufacturing in the U.S.," says Ashley's CEO, Todd Wanek."
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