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Why Manufacturing Matters

The David McWilliams Podcast

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Last week i read a chart about size of chinese manufacturing in the world. What i was talking about was the profound dislocative impact of china on the rest of the world. Ireland's manufacturing output is half that of britain, yet ireland has a population between 13 and 14 times ter. Big, big manufacturing countries have seen their manufacturing base slaughtered. Yet this tiny, little country, ireland, has seen its manufacturing base go through the roof. The fascinating story of the last 30 years in ireland has been the extraordinary growth in the man fracturing side of the irish economy. So you'd never really put us together with the germans. I'm not just

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