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Chapter 7.   The Tin Ceiling

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     Detroit's stumble with electric cars and other alternative vehicle technologies will be the encore to their stumble in the small car market 30 years ago.  When it's too late to do anything else, Detroit may be compelled to import and re-badge advanced vehicle subsystems (if not entire cars) made by overseas competitors --  if they can.  Of course, this will increase our billion-dollar-a-day trade deficit and will permanently eliminate thousands of well-paid American manufacturing jobs . . . . (chapter has 7 pages).

Learn more by reading:

In Praise of Hard Industries:  Why Manufacturing, Not the Information Economy, is the Key to Future Prosperity by Eamonn Fingleton.

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