> U.S. manufacturing construction spending reached a 20-year high
A nominal 20-year high and the increase is since the pandemic. Also this is for construction. Here are some other time series: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/OUTMS
Walmart $350 billion investment is over 10 years and mostly is for agriculture and some small electronics.
Also this source is an American manufacturing lobbying group.
companies have announced over $166 billion in manufacturing in semiconductors and electronics, and at least 50 community colleges in 19 states have announced new or expanded programming to help American workers access good-paying jobs in the semiconductor industry. https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases...
I feel like this comment is GPT-ed. You are just putting random numbers out there. They are meaningless. The previous poster gave you an indicator "Real Sectoral Output for All Workers". The indicator adjusts for inflation.
US manufacturing never recovered from the 2008 crisis. And in 2005, the output of manufacturing was higher than it is today (in real value terms, not funny dollars).
Of this 194 billion, how much are one-offs? If intel builds one plant (in 2011) for 43 billion and average investmenr in 2011 was 109 billion, then intel is like 45% of all.
So in 2023 maybe there was some other big one off?
Of course a factory is still a factory, so the one-off thing is a bit misleading, but what I try to say that it seems one big factory takes 40% of investment. What would be the spending for 10? 400 bilion?
One is still better than zero though and probably has subcontractors.
A nominal 20-year high and the increase is since the pandemic. Also this is for construction. Here are some other time series: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/OUTMS
Walmart $350 billion investment is over 10 years and mostly is for agriculture and some small electronics.
Also this source is an American manufacturing lobbying group.