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The Japanese Debt Crisis (Part 2): When Does Japan Cross The Event Horizon? – Seeking Alpha

April 20, 2012

By Ron Rimkus, CFA As noted in the first part of this series on Japan’s looming debt crisis, the economic consequences of Japan’s aging population are just beginning to manifest themselves, and dissaving – the act of spending down your life savings – isn’t the only problem that arises. Social and healthcare spending also accelerate, […]

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Providing SMBs with an Onshore Alternative – MSPmentor

April 20, 2012

The trend toward offshoring business services jobs in the United States is not going away anytime soon, and will in fact accelerate during the next few years. This is the main finding of a new study from The Hackett Group, which indicates that businesses based in both the United States and Europe will shed almost […]

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Debt crisis: Live – Telegraph.co.uk

April 20, 2012

All in all this is an outlier which we shouldn’t take too seriously but I think the impact of it will be to mean that Q1 consumer spending will have come in more strongly than we anticipated. It might add an extra tenth to the GDP growth rate compared to what we were initially expecting […]

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Manufacturers ‘could drive UK recovery’, says Begbies Traynor – Telegraph.co.uk

April 20, 2012

However, a comparison of distress levels between the start of this year and the final quarter of 2011 paints a less rosy picture: warning signs of insolvency across all sectors rose by 55pc after the pre-Christmas spending peak subsided. Construction and leisure firms in particular appear to be suffering, with respective increases in signs of […]

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Repatriating Jobs: US Manufacturing Gains Momentum – BusinessWeek (blog)

April 20, 2012

Maybe the once-ubiquitous label, “Made in the U.S.A.” should be updated to: “Made in the U.S.A.—Again.” According to a survey by my firm, Boston Consulting Group, 37 percent of U.S.-based manufacturing executives at companies with sales greater than $1 billion are planning to bring back production to the U.S., or are “actively considering” doing so. […]

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More Than a Third of Large Manufacturers Are Considering Reshoring From China … – MarketWatch (press release)

April 20, 2012

CHICAGO, IL, Apr 20, 2012 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) — More than a third of U.S.-based manufacturing executives at companies with sales greater than $1 billion are planning to bring back production to the United States from China or are considering it, according to a new survey by The Boston Consulting Group (BCG). Decision makers at […]

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Completing the wage revolution – TODAYonline

April 19, 2012

Low-income wage earners in Singapore are today stuck at a very low base-wage and raising it incrementally by associating it with productivity improvement will hardly make a difference in mollifying the hardship many are in. A substantial step-up adjustment is, therefore, not only necessary and equitable but also long overdue. During the ’70s and […]

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Wanted, desperately: Skilled workers – AZ Central.com

April 19, 2012

The economic recovery has been driven by a manufacturing revival the past two years. But the strength of that revival could be threatened by the challenges facing a small and beleaguered sector of manufacturing that evokes images of a quainter, more labor-intensive era: the tool and die industry. These skilled manufacturers are vital. They produce […]

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Comparative advantage The boomerang effect – The Economist

April 19, 2012

THIRTY YEARS AGO Shenzhen was little more than a village, abutting the border of Hong Kong’s New Territories. When China’s first Special Economic Zone was established in the early 1980s, workshops started to grow and glistening skyscrapers began to rise up. Its population is now around 12m, including perhaps 6m migrant workers. They often live […]

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Group strength proves crucial in re-establishing the UK’s manufacturing industry – Manufacturing Digital

April 19, 2012

Written by Gerry Dunne, Chairman of the Midlands Assembly Network Back in 2005, the UK was under siege. A combination of low cost, low labour from emerging nations arriving on the scene caused a lot of UK manufacturing heavyweights to slip into liquidation or close plants and move elsewhere; the most noticeable casualties being MG […]

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