WSJ: The manufacturing boom Trump promised would usher in a golden age for America is going in reverse

[patphil]

6. If I was the head of a large corporation, I'd look at this as a very risky time to make a huge investment in the busines

Several things:

Manufacturing still needs a lot of raw materials and parts that come from foreign sources.
The tariff's keep changing, so a business can't project development costs.
Foreign nations are fighting back, and making it hard to export what we manufacture.
Labor costs are volatile due to mass deportation of workers.
Trump can't be relied on to stabilize the economic environment for any length of time.
There could be a massive upheaval across the nation due to the whole ICE thing, and it's potential expansion.
We could see our Constitutional Democratic Republic collapse, and with it our economy.

Essentially, it's a time for businesses to stand by and wait for a more certain future before they commit huge sums of money.