Worse Than The Great Depression: What Experts Are Missing About Manufacturing's Decline
Channel: TechPolicy
Date: 2012-03-20

Rob Atkinson Speaks on the ITIF Report: Worse Than The Great Depression: What Experts Are Missing About Manufacturing's Decline.

Question 1 (00:30): The report paints a bleak picture if U.S. manufacturing, but haven't we known that for awhile? Why is this report different? 

Question 2 (01:05): We keep hearing manufacturing is coming back and that we may even be on the cusp of a renaissance, is this not true?

Question 3 (01:58): So what is the main problem, granted employment has gone down, but hasn't productivity change?

Question 4 (03:11): Productivity is just measured wrong? Can you elaborate on that?

Question 5 (05:46) : Even if we are less productive than we've assumed and lost jobs, aren't we making up for it in services?

Question 6 (07:21): But haven't a lot of other countries like the U.S. experience problems in manufacturing? A lot of production has shifted to Asia and other countries and it is a period of transitions that is doable?

Question 7 (08:55): The U.S. like other countries has policies in place to support manufacturing, we didn't just abandon the sector, so what happened, where are we failing behind? 

Question 8 (10:53): Isn't it too late? Do we have time to implement and make changes?

Question 9 (12:04): Maybe te first thing we have to do recognize the nature of the problem, it is not as strong as we think, it's not simply we're becoming more productive, not on the edge of a renaissance, that we have a serious problem...