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Economy

Domestic Manufacturing… What Manufacturing?

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Burning Money PicIndustrial production and capacity utilization did come in right where economists were expecting, but the level at which these numbers are seeing just feels ghastly.  Industrial production for May was -1.1% and Capacity utilization was a mere 68.3%.  We saw capacity revised slightly lower for April to 69.0% from 69.1%.

The good news, if you can take any good news from this report, is that the numbers are actually holding up on a year-over-year basis.  Production was down more than 13% annually but capacity was up by 0.1%.

The manufacturing was the weak spot where capacity there fell to 65% from 65.6%.  You do not even want to see how low the capacity is at manufacturing of autos and parts.  If you removed autos, production would have “only” been down by -0.9%.

If the U.S. wants to get its manufacturing game back on, those green manufacturing jobs better start coming to fruition.

Jon C. Ogg
June 16, 2009

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Douglas A. McIntyre is the co-founder, chief executive officer and editor in chief of 24/7 Wall St. and 24/7 Tempo. He has held these jobs since 2006.

McIntyre has written thousands of articles for 24/7 Wall St. He is an expert on corporate finance, the automotive industry, media companies and international finance. He has edited articles on national demographics, sports, personal income and travel.

His work has been quoted or mentioned in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, NBC News, Time, The New Yorker, HuffPost USA Today, Business Insider, Yahoo, AOL, MarketWatch, The Atlantic, Bloomberg, New York Post, Chicago Tribune, Forbes, The Guardian and many other major publications. McIntyre has been a guest on CNBC, the BBC and television and radio stations across the country.

A magna cum laude graduate of Harvard College, McIntyre also was president of The Harvard Advocate. Founded in 1866, the Advocate is the oldest college publication in the United States.

TheStreet.com, Comps.com and Edgar Online are some of the public companies for which McIntyre served on the board of directors. He was a Vicinity Corporation board member when the company was sold to Microsoft in 2002. He served on the audit committees of some of these companies.

McIntyre has been the CEO of FutureSource, a provider of trading terminals and news to commodities and futures traders. He was president of Switchboard, the online phone directory company. He served as chairman and CEO of On2 Technologies, the video compression company that provided video compression software for Adobe’s Flash. Google bought On2 in 2009.

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