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Robots threaten 2/3 jobs in developing world, could save first-world economies – UN

November 9, 2016
Robots are coming… and will ‘fundamentally’ change human life, UK MPs warn “Developed countries may aim to reshore in order to regain international competitiveness in manufacturing and stem the decline in manufacturing employment and the …
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ENERGY MATTERS: America needs to use more energy

November 9, 2016
Harry Moser, founder and president of the Reshoring Initiative, which aims to bring manufacturing back home, is optimistic. He told me: “We’ve gone from losing somewhere around 200,000 manufacturing jobs a year in 2000 to 2003 to net breaking even.
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Artificial intelligence will ‘inevitably’ destroy millions of jobs and could bring down governments

November 9, 2016
As many of these lower-skilled jobs had already disappeared in developed countries, the effect of automation and reshoring could bring about extreme losses in developing countries. The use of robots will reduce the value of human labour in these settings …
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Shipping Recovery Faces Supply/Demand Challenges

November 9, 2016
Factors including increased energy efficiency, slowing containerization demand and reshoring are all threats. However, the demand side is far from all bad news. “How many ships are needed to meet demand projections is a function of multiple factors …
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Sector ETFs Hitting 52-Week High on Trump’s Victory

November 9, 2016
This divide is seen as the reason for the rise in manufacturing offshoring in recent times. But Trump’s win now may set the trend for manufacturing ‘reshoring’. This has probably pushed First Trust RBA American Industrial Renaissance TM ETF AIRR …
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How Tinkering and “Problem Making” Are Shaking Up Higher Education

November 9, 2016
“Reshoring,” the practice of bringing manufacturing back to the United States, has become common practice at companies like GE, where employees will now be expected to have the capability to manufacture products in house. In order to prepare for an …
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Will robots impede Trump’s promise to bolster manufacturing jobs?

November 9, 2016
‘Reshoring’ reduces both administrative and legal costs, as well as the cost of overheads. Recently, we reported on a company in China who brought in robots to counteract labour costs. Read more here.
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Mexico – Trump victory triggers peso plunge to record lows

November 9, 2016
The reasons for this flight from the peso are based around the fear that the new Trump administration will adopt protectionist trade measures to reshore US jobs lost to globalization. The US is Mexico’s biggest trading partner and President-Elect Trump …
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Trump election could affect tens of thousands of jobs in Northern Ireland

November 8, 2016
That’s if the Republican makes good on his pledge to reshore overseas jobs back to the United States. Among Trump’s key economic pledges was to repatriate more than a trillion dollars in overseas profits by offering a tax rate of just 10 per cent.
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Trump promises to bring back manufacturing jobs, but robots won’t let him

November 8, 2016
“Reshoring” becomes more appealing with every technological advance in robots, since it reduces administrative and legal overhead as well as labor costs. And robots aren’t getting dumber, obviously. Advances in computer vision and artificial …
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