GE on "Making Stuff" is Africa Listening?

In the NYTimes Jeffrey Immelt, CEO of GE on "making" i.e. manufacturing:

“Many bought into the idea that America could go from a technology-based, export-oriented powerhouse to a services-led, consumption-based economy — and somehow still expect to prosper,” Mr. Immelt said in a typical speech last year before the Detroit Economic Club. “That idea was flat wrong.” He added: “Our economy tilted instead toward the quicker profits of financial services.”...[continue reading]