Nick Yates AU

American production lines dependent on Chinese suppliers might take note of recent labor trends in China.

It may be that labor costs will be rising dramatically soon for Chinese suppliers, due not only to China’s peculiar demographics but also its current stage of development and a resultant steady rise in labor costs there.

The booming Chinese economy of recent decades [...]

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I, Nick Yates, am going to make myself unpopular with the muses who exert their sometimes inexplicable influence over public opinion.

Specifically those muses behind the flights of fancy that now have us increasingly enamored, as a nation, with the idea of transferring our power grid out of the hands of carbon-based power technology and into those gearing up to profit from the [...]

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