by Keyian Vafai | May 3, 2026 | Manufacturing
Manufacturing in April will likely tick up for the fourth straight month, but pressures from the Iran War are expected to continue to keep manufacturers on their toes. Bloomberg’s economist diffusion index predicts a reading of 53.0 for the purchasing managers’ index...
by Keyian Vafai | Apr 16, 2026 | Featured, Manufacturing
Pawel Krasicki had been working the fry station at a restaurant in John F Kennedy International Airport when his father’s cancer diagnosis made the rigid hours of restaurant work impossible. Like many Americans struggling to care for a sick parent, Krasicki, a...
by Keyian Vafai | Apr 6, 2026 | Featured, Manufacturing
In the first look at US manufacturing since the beginning of the US-Israel war on Iran, manufacturing activity ticked upward again in March to its strongest level in nearly four years, signaling renewed industrial momentum with the caveat that, below-the-fold,...
by Casey Wetherbee | Mar 31, 2026 | Inflation, Manufacturing, Trade
Some high-end wood furniture manufacturers have reportedly benefited from tariffs. It is unclear if those benefits outweigh the costs — and whether it’s even enough to bring jobs back to the US. Gat Caperton remembers a time when most of the wood furniture that was...
by Keyian Vafai | Mar 5, 2026 | Manufacturing
American manufacturing activity continued to expand for the second straight month in February, but producers are still struggling in the throes of President Trump’s inflationary tariff policy. The Institute for Supply Management on Monday said its manufacturing...
by Elisa Muyl | Apr 24, 2024 | Manufacturing
Embed from Getty Images The US Census Bureau will release the March durable goods report on Wednesday morning. Economists expect orders for long-lasting manufactured goods to increase by 2.5 percent, or approximately $6.9 billion, over the previous month. So far this...
