The West Forgot How to Make Things. Now It's Forgetting How to Code

Re:The West Forgot How to Make Things. Now It's Forgetting H... by mikem170 on Sunday April 26, 2026 @12:50PM (#47911717)

Are stock market profit expectations mostly long term? Stock markets have been wrong before.

Besides that, the U.S. stock market went up over several decades while manufacturing capabilities were transferred overseas. That has had, and will continue to have, domestic ramifications that might not be captured by investor profits.

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Re:The West Forgot How to Make Things. Now It's Forgetting H... by WalterBright on Sunday April 26, 2026 @01:37PM (#47912144)

The stock market has been going up for a couple hundred years. When do you expect the pervasive short term thinking will crater the economy?

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Re:The West Forgot How to Make Things. Now It's Forgetting H... by mikem170 on Monday April 27, 2026 @02:15AM (#47918277)

I didn't say that the economy would be cratered. GDP doesn't capture everything.

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