Why transfer them at airports? Let them drop from one plane to the one flying below!!
Or use a large mail sack approach, attaching them to a pole or rigging from one plane as it flies over, which is then snagged by the next one.
But the advantages of specialization and trade are too great to totally avoid globalization. Perhaps trade with a reduced role for China, Russia, Iran, and North Korea, and a few others. The tricky part is deciding how to ensure your national security supply lines are robust enough. Maybe we should set up Sovereign Reserves (like we have for oil), where we store piles of Co, Ni, Cu, etc. as needed for armaments and for support equipment and communications, etc. But part of that equation has to be to also have the dedicated human and equipment/factory capital as required. Some solutions will degrade over time, or obsolesce with technology advances. As I said, "tricky".
Interesting article. Item on pg 35 on ERP almost makes we want to come out of retirement and take that stuff up again - I said "almost".
Also noted he said there was private investment along with govt subsidies, so not a total waste of money. I do find it disturbing the three pieces of legislation he mentions providing those subsidies appear to have been generated under the Biden administration [boo, hiss, etc.]. But David P Goldman has been calling for reshoring/ R&D investment for a while, so half a loaf is better than none.
Still, the focus seems to be on high tech, which has some relationship to ensuring our tactical and strategic interests are protected, but transport and chemicals also play a role. On the plus side this sounds like opportunities for some Somewhere's to actually become (the right kind of?) Anywhere's. Human and physical/money capital in Mexico might provide more support for non-top tech stuff.
But we have to buy our paperclips, flip flops, garden hoses, etc. from somewhere so they have the money to buy our tech and weapons systems. Trade is still needed, if modified and constrained from the 2000 to 2022 span. Just need to avoid the IP stealing CCP to the max extent possible, while at the same time we avoid putting that rat in a corner such that he has to come out fighting.
"Super cycle" seems like hyperbole, but still some valuable and promising prospects. Thanks for the alert.
Why transfer them at airports? Let them drop from one plane to the one flying below!!
Or use a large mail sack approach, attaching them to a pole or rigging from one plane as it flies over, which is then snagged by the next one.
But the advantages of specialization and trade are too great to totally avoid globalization. Perhaps trade with a reduced role for China, Russia, Iran, and North Korea, and a few others. The tricky part is deciding how to ensure your national security supply lines are robust enough. Maybe we should set up Sovereign Reserves (like we have for oil), where we store piles of Co, Ni, Cu, etc. as needed for armaments and for support equipment and communications, etc. But part of that equation has to be to also have the dedicated human and equipment/factory capital as required. Some solutions will degrade over time, or obsolesce with technology advances. As I said, "tricky".
Its not tricky we’re reshoring in a deluge. No, really.
“A Manufacturing SuperCycle “ in America.
https://wlea.net/reshoring-triggers-manufacturing-supercycle/?amp=1
Interesting article. Item on pg 35 on ERP almost makes we want to come out of retirement and take that stuff up again - I said "almost".
Also noted he said there was private investment along with govt subsidies, so not a total waste of money. I do find it disturbing the three pieces of legislation he mentions providing those subsidies appear to have been generated under the Biden administration [boo, hiss, etc.]. But David P Goldman has been calling for reshoring/ R&D investment for a while, so half a loaf is better than none.
Still, the focus seems to be on high tech, which has some relationship to ensuring our tactical and strategic interests are protected, but transport and chemicals also play a role. On the plus side this sounds like opportunities for some Somewhere's to actually become (the right kind of?) Anywhere's. Human and physical/money capital in Mexico might provide more support for non-top tech stuff.
But we have to buy our paperclips, flip flops, garden hoses, etc. from somewhere so they have the money to buy our tech and weapons systems. Trade is still needed, if modified and constrained from the 2000 to 2022 span. Just need to avoid the IP stealing CCP to the max extent possible, while at the same time we avoid putting that rat in a corner such that he has to come out fighting.
"Super cycle" seems like hyperbole, but still some valuable and promising prospects. Thanks for the alert.