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Post Tagged 'Reshoring and Industrial Policy'

America’s New ‘Reshoring’ Policy: A Warning from Hungary

When Donald Trump campaigned on the grand promise to bring blue-collar manufacturing jobs back to the United States, I knew I had seen and heard this before. As a former Hungarian Member of Parliament from a small town, mainly boasting factories with assembly lines that serve car manufacturers, I had seen how this brand of campaign rhetoric serves only a short-term political interest but does not serve the country’s future. Continue Reading...