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View as a gridHow U.S. Companies Can Begin To Reshore
Discourse Magazine
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How can we diversify our supply chains to reduce dependence on goods from China? Replacing China's massive manufacturing capacity would be difficult, but productivity in the U.S. is more than triple that of China and gives a hint as to how to proceed. If U.S.
Phillip S. Coles: It wasn't Ticketmaster's fault
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
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The fallout continues from Ticketmaster's Taylor Swift concert ticket sales debacle. Some fans and politicians, like Alexandria Ocasio Cortez, claim...
Reshoring American Supply Chains From China
Discourse Magazine
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Those who bemoan the offshoring of manufacturing jobs to foreign countries such as China often ask why we can't restore those jobs to the U.S. The answer is that we can, but maybe we shouldn't. After all, free trade among countries increases competition and thus results in lower prices.
Opinion | Risk Management and the Baby-Formula Shortage
The Wall Street Journal
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The infant-formula shortage took me back to an illuminating incident during a fire-safety training session I attended decades ago. The trainer was showing us how to save a person engulfed by flames. One of the participants objected to using a fire extinguisher on a human being: "Aren't those chemicals dangerous?"
Opinion | Hoarding Is a Bad Idea During Times of Supply-Chain Uncertainty
The Wall Street Journal
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"Buy as much hay as you can," our farm manager commanded in 1988. "The hay crop is bad. Prices are up. We need to build inventory." We proceeded to buy an extra 3,000 tons of hay, used to make mushroom compost, at record high prices.
Don’t Blame Lean Production Methods for Shortages
Supply Chain Management Review
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Inventory is not necessarily good or bad. It depends
Examining China's Challenge to Democracy
The Wall Street Journal
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In " China's Challenge to Democracy " (Review, April 28), David Runciman seems to have inadvertently discovered what Milton Friedman has taught us for decades: Economic prosperity is more closely tied to economic freedom than to political freedom. Prof. Phillip S. Coles