Correspondent & Host
Sabri is a correspondent and host for Marketplace based in New York City. He has many, many plants.
The increased scrutiny has led to an intended chilling effect, with Chinese foreign direct investment slowing since 2016.
It’s an attempt to gain leverage over China.
People have outdated ideas about manufacturing jobs and facilities, according to an executive.
The U.S. is in a quiet race driven by national and economic security to reestablish a domestic supply chain for rare earth elements.
Economists expect the U.S. to surpass the GDP we’d have seen if COVID-19 hadn’t happened. But many still wait for jobs to come back.
Semiconductors are in almost everything, including military equipment, and we don’t have enough of them.
Demand for new U.S. homes is at a record high, and existing homes are old and need repairs.
Will we see prices rising into 2022? And would larger-than-expected spikes in inflation be noticeable to consumers?
“Culture doesn’t come for free,” one professor told us. “You have to keep feeding it.”
This explosion didn’t happen just because everyone was stuck at home. It started before the pandemic.
