U.S. Economic News
November 11, 2019
U.S. News
Bloomberg reports that Myanmar is poised to attract a surge of investment as manufacturers seeking to avoid U.S. tariffs shift production from China, while previous destinations such as Vietnam are experiencing capacity constraints and congested infrastructure. The U.S.-China trade war has provided an opportunity for Myanmar and other Southeast Asian countries as companies attempt to skirt tariffs on Chinese goods. Bloomberg
According to the Wall Street Journal, the Census Bureau is overhauling its data systems after discovering that published statistics from the 2020 census could be used to identify millions of individual census respondents. To better protect respondents’ identities, the Bureau has opted to both mathematically adjust results and sharply reduce the number of statistics it publishes, raising concerns among academics and businesses that rely on census data for research. WSJ