US Manufacturing Upping the Happy for Supply Chains Globally

“…get my happy back again.” – REM

That phrase sticks paradoxically; Michael Stipe’s manically depressively inspirational ‘Lotus’ echoes humanities’ emotional existence-state ebbs and flows. Following when we fell, in 2008, it was difficult to determine the direction up. There was a collective isolation amongst us all; a numbing panic.

But maybe, baby, we’re past that time when we could barely breathe. Seems no suspicion the moment’s hesitation failed to manifest industrial incapacitation. Get this – U.S. exports of goods and services totaled $2.2 trillion in 2012, a whoa (!) -inspiring 38.7 percent higher than exporting volumes of 2009, with related supply chain activity growing an average of 11.9 percent annually during these most recent four years, so says U.S. Commerce Department findings. Here’s clarity that the manufacturing sector has held up well during otherwise disturbing times of emotional and economical human experience.