Not sure what metric you're using to claim that we manufacture "much, much less than we used to". US manufacturing output continues to hit all-time records. M

Not sure what metric you're using to claim that we manufacture "much, much less than we used to". US manufacturing output continues to hit all-time records. Measured in real dollars, output is ~40% higher than in 1990, and ~$220% higher than 1970. See http://unstats.un.org/unsd/snaama/dnllist.asp http://unstats.un.org/unsd/snaama/dnllist.asp for data.