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PMI is a sentiment survey of 400 manufacturing executives. Vibes only.

• dominotw 1mo ago
  ironic given top comment on this thread is pure vibes. interesting you chose to repond with this "vibes" comment to this instead.
  • Dylan16807 1mo ago
    While the top comment is pretty vibey, it's not presenting itself as firm statistics.
• pinkmuffinere 1mo ago
  Are you saying PMI is a survey of 400 manufacturing executives about the status of manufacturing, and you don't think it carries meaningful signal about the status of manufacturing? I wonder what you think _would_ carry meaningful signal, if you're not satisfied by asking the people that are doing said manufacturing?
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  • samrus 1mo ago
    Hard numbers. Like output, or investment made. Like number of cars, tons of steel, etc. Things that actually reflect reality
    • lostlogin 1mo ago
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  • sxyuan 1mo ago
    Executives aren't exactly the ones doing all the manufacturing. If you want to look at employment in manufacturing, the most you can say is that's it's stabilized after the first year of this administration: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/?g=1XUKx https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/?g=1XUKx