The Sharpie case shows a firm moved production from China to Tennessee to reduce exposure to future tariffs and supply‑chain shocks, and claims it can now make markers more cheaply in the U.S. When executives price geopolitical risk and policy swings, the total cost calculus can beat low foreign wages.
— It reframes onshoring as a rational hedge against policy and geopolitical volatility, not just nationalism, shifting trade and industrial policy arguments.
msmash
2026.01.13
54% relevant
The cited idea links policy uncertainty to firms’ industrial choices; similarly, JPMorgan’s warning and analysts’ comments show that a drastic interest‑rate cap would force banks to change business models and could reduce consumer credit availability — a comparable example of policy risk reshaping private economic behaviour and access to markets.
Noah Smith
2025.12.31
60% relevant
The piece flags tariffs and the economy as a topic of interest; that connects to the existing pattern that tariff policy and uncertainty change firm decisions about onshoring/reshoring and thus local small‑business ecosystems and industrial strategy.
Law & Liberty Editors
2025.12.29
55% relevant
The inclusion of 'A Tariff Waiting Game' signals editorial attention to tariff policy and its legal uncertainty — which ties into the broader discourse that tariff risk reshapes industrial location and trade politics (the existing idea linking tariffs to reshoring and policy fragility).
Anna Clark
2025.12.01
78% relevant
Both items connect trade policy volatility to firm decisions and local employment: ProPublica documents a Michigan factory blaming Trump-era tariffs for its closure and job losses, which is a concrete instance of the broader pattern that tariff uncertainty reshapes where and how businesses locate production and source inputs.
Chris Griswold
2025.10.13
100% relevant
Newell CEO Chris Peterson: 'Trump is talking about very large tariffs on China imports… We just want to reduce our exposure regardless of the outcome'—cited in moving Sharpie production home.