🇺🇸 The tariffs were supposed to CRUSH U.S. factories, the latest data says otherwise...
The Labor Department just dropped Q2 numbers:
-Manufacturing output up 4.6% annual rate -Hours worked up 2.6% -Productivity up 1.9%
Durable goods, the stuff tariffs hit hardest, did even better. Output up 7.3%, productivity up 2.7%, and labor costs actually fell 1.6%.
A strange look for a sector everyone had already buried. Factories are making more, hiring more, and getting more efficient, all at the same time.
Rewind to late 2024 and it was the opposite story. Output shrinking, hours down, productivity slipping. Since then it's climbed in 5 of the last 6 quarters.
Durable output's now sitting at its highest since early 2019. Could still cool off, but so far the collapse everyone called just hasn't shown up.
ملف إبستين: إثارة القلق والضبابية (FUD) ضبابية القلق في مجال الكم (FUD) حرب الولايات المتحدة-إيران إثارة القلق والضبابية (FUD) في استراتيجية سايلور اختراقات واستغلالات في عالم التمويل اللامركزي (DeFi) تسريحات الشركات في مجال العملات المشفرة البورصات تغلق عملياتها تأخيرات قانون الوضوح (Clarity Act) تفريغ محافظ الأجهزة
تذكير: فقط تنفّس وابقَ على قيد الحياة خلال الشهور القليلة القادمة.