'Insourcing' to America; Conditions Are Ripe to Reverse Outflow of Jobs

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Byline: Suzanne Fields, SPECIAL TO THE WASHINGTON TIMES

We've given up our role as the manufacturing colossus, which blinds us to the reality that the times, they are a-changing - again. For decades, writes James Fallows in The Atlantic magazine, every trend in manufacturing favored the developing world and worked against the United States. But new tools that greatly speed up development from idea to finished product encourage start-up companies to locate here, not in Asia.

He found his epiphany when he visited a factory in China that makes computers, smartphones and games for brands such as Apple, Dell and Nintendo, enabling the American brands to exploit cheap …