Report by The Boston Consulting Group Finds Improved American Competitiveness and Rising Costs in China Will Accelerate Shift of Production in a Broad Range of Industries March 21, 2012 — CHICAGO, IL — (Marketwire) — 03/22/12 — Improved U.S. competitiveness and rising costs in China will put the United States in a strong position by […]

There are some obvious steps available to the administration to incite more credible inferences of economic progress that don’t require legislation, and should not be complicated, even in this very odd election campaign. Longer-term interest rates have just finally started to inch up, and there has been slight progress in the last couple of years […]

With rising labour costs, an increase in the number of force majeure events across the globe as well as fluctuating exchange rates, the reasons to bring production either back or closer to home are many. However, whilst there’s increasing pressure on outsourced or offshore business to return closer to home, rising labour costs really are […]

It’s easy enough for people to shout at Apple for getting everything manufactured by Foxconn in China. Easy enough to shout at ll sorts of people in fact, Nike, almost all of the other textiles manufacturers, all the other electronics manufacturers. However, the whole process is rather more fraught with difficulty than […]