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Aug 4
2009
Infographic of the Day: The US as Manufacturing Leader
by Ben Lorica | @dliman | comments: 3The U.S. remains the world's largest manufacturer, but with growth projected to be flat, China is poised to overtake it by 2015. In 2007 the U.S. accounted for 20% of manufacturing, China had 12%.
(From the Wall St. Journal.)
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um...
based on past experience... projecting out more than 5 years is usually nothing but educated guesses and/or lies.
Other than real demographic shifts, I've never seen a chart 5 years out that was remotely accurate 5 years later.
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zenkat [2009-08-04 10:52 AM]
Compare and contrast to an NYT infographic (via Jon Taplin):
http://jontaplin.com/2009/08/01/national-security-state/
We may still be a manufacturing leader, but that's just because we build *lots* of weaponry.