Weird; I had the opposite reaction. The data in the charts seemed soothing to me. I thought manufacturing had been crushed by double digit percentages, even tod

Weird; I had the opposite reaction. The data in the charts seemed soothing to me. I thought manufacturing had been crushed by double digit percentages, even today. It's rebounding significantly and while the author asserts it is a plateau, I think it's far too soon to make that call. I don't disagree with the author's main points about manufacturing and the economy in general; I just don't see the dire situation in the data.