The Empire Manufacturing Index stayed above 50 again in August—now the entire year in expansion territory. When you adjust for ISM methodology, it came in around 55.
Manufacturing keeps quietly chugging along. Not explosive, not collapsing. Just... steady.
This is what resilience actually looks like—not the dramatic V-shape recoveries everyone cheers for, but the slow grind that nobody notices until they look back a year later.
Manufacturing keeps quietly chugging along. Not explosive, not collapsing. Just... steady.
This is what resilience actually looks like—not the dramatic V-shape recoveries everyone cheers for, but the slow grind that nobody notices until they look back a year later.