The Essential Products Best Suited for Reshoring

HermitCrab argues government funding of favored industries is misguided and wasteful. If we intend to regain our manufacturing base, we need a multi-pronged approach that includes long-term incentives, a tariff policy to supports green-shoot manufacturing, and a national conversation about why spending an extra dollar on a rake or shovel at a hardware store is good for America.

How Reshoring Can Revive Small Towns & Communities

Mill towns are a thing of the past, but serve to remind us that changes are always on the horizon, either better (new forms of power allowed larger factories to rise away from the water) or worse (offshoring to our adversaries). The net effect is that small towns suffered, shriveled, and shuttered. Only a manufacturing renaissance can bring some of these towns back to life. We need to start now.