Brooke Sutherland

Industrial Strength is expanding! 🥳The newsletter will now come out twice a week. It covers everything from airlines to air conditioning, manufacturing to M&A, robots to railroads and more. Sign up to get it in your inbox, now on Wednesdays and Fridays: bloomberg.com/account/newsle…

DOGE claimed to have wrought $8 billion in savings by killing one contract. Except it was worth $8 million, not $8 billion. For context, ICE's total annual budget is about $9 billion. bloomberg.com/news/articles/… via @bpolitics

BREAKING: Kamala Harris is projected to win Massachusetts bloom.bg/election2024tr…

MANY posts on the Bloomberg liveblog with reporters and editors across swing states and the globe doing analysis and react. bloomberg.com/news/live-blog…

"A cellphone without a network is AI without data. It is completely useless." @Xerox's CEO Steve Bandrowczak discusses #AI's reliance on data and communicating with clients within the industry with @blsuth at #TheFutureInvestor ⏯️bloom.bg/4f4foFQ

More flexible schedules can also help bring parents into the workforce. GE Appliances is among the companies that's trying to evolve beyond the typical manufacturing model of at least eight-hour shifts, five days a week and experiment with part-time work bloomberg.com/opinion/articl…

Manufacturers are increasingly realizing that a lack of affordable childcare is limiting their labor pool and they've been exploring ways to solve this problem through onsite daycares, public-private partnerships and subsidies. My story from last year: bloomberg.com/opinion/articl…

Public spending on child-care and pre-primary education in the US was about 0.3% of GDP in 2019. Defense spending accounted for about 3%. Berlin is a case study in how affordable childcare is possible, via @chrismbryant @opinion: bloomberg.com/opinion/articl…

the collapse of steward health care has massachusetts lawmakers pointing fingers at its landlord in recent legislation. @blsuth and i took a look at why real estate experts believe the proposed fixes miss the mark, for @business bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

It’s time to abandon the premise of interchangeable CEOs, who are produced at a GE-like people factory and can be swapped in and out like widgets, says @bethkowitt: bloomberg.com/opinion/articl… via @opinion

Acquiring Spirit would make Boeing an even more dominant force in airplane manufacturing. When a company is as integral to the US economy as Boeing is, it’s not in anyone’s interest to hit the planemaker where it really hurts. Today's newsletter bloomberg.com/news/newslette… @business

A bipartisan group of politicians gathered in Boston last week to discuss "whole of government approach” to safeguarding a US biotech supply chain that's heavily dependent on China bloomberg.com/news/newslette… via @AnsteyAsia for @economics

Harvard University is bracing for two bills in its home state of Massachusetts this year that would target the school’s massive $51 billion endowment and policy of admitting legacy applicants bloomberg.com/news/articles/… by @JanetLorin via @business

@opinion Factories may be built with stone but the commitments to build them tend to be written in pencil, with plenty of room for delays or for companies to change their minds entirely. The reality of reshoring is much more nebulous than the narrative and the timeline may be stretched.

This follows a spate of push-outs on the construction of new EV plants. Expectations for an industrial super-cycle powered by “megatrends” and government stimulus are colliding with economic and market realities. Friday's newsletter, ICYMI: bloomberg.com/opinion/articl… @opinion

Li-Cycle Holdings announced it would pause construction on a first-of-its-kind lithium ion battery recycling plant pending a review of the scope and budget. bloomberg.com/news/articles/… via @markets

Current geopolitical tensions would seem to demand a meaningful boost to defense budgets, but Congress can’t — or won’t — deliver it at the moment. This paradox has kept a lid on the performance of defense stocks. Wednesday's newsletter: bloomberg.com/opinion/articl… @opinion

The robots are coming, but not at the pace that they were during the peak of the post-pandemic labor shortages. That's not what one would expect if the US is really in the middle of a reshoring boom. Last week's newsletter, ICYMI: bloomberg.com/opinion/articl… via @opinion

Included in the CR headed to Biden's desk is an FAA extension through Dec. 31 to avert a lapse at midnight Long-term FAA reauthorization remains stalled. Congress often relies on short-term FAA bills when it can't reach an agreement bgov.com/next/news/S1TS…

The robots are coming, but automation investment appears tied to labor shortages and doesn't signal a reshoring boom in the US, @blsuth says trib.al/nYRTc26