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Industrial capital spending has never, ever been as low as it is right now, even during Covid. It's pretty much zero, because nobody has any intention of investing in any sort of industrial infrastructure in a complete clusterfuck of economic and trade policy. The chicken hasn't come close to roosting yet, give it another few months and watch the bloodbath.
And industrial capital takes a long time to realize. Speaking as an industrial engineer who's been involved in the process, it's a pain in the ass amount of time between us getting called in and floor workers getting called in. Once factories shutter it'll be years before theyre back online. And I don't see it happening under Trump.
How are you finding it for supply line on equipment for the floor, or do you see any of that side of the process? Because as far as I know, most of the machinery is not making it's way into the country from China and Europe because of tariffs, so even if you put up a building, you wouldn't be able to outfit it. If it is getting in, it's going to be prohibitively expensive to outfit a line.
They also gorged themselves on basically zero percent lending, used it for things along the lines of stock buybacks and now their equipment/supply chain is failing. Low corporate taxes mean there's no incentive to reinvest, certainly not upping wages.
Capitalism is a cancer that's running out of healthy cells.