# Booming U.S. manufacturers can’t keep up with demand — and high inflation isn’t helping

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- Published: 2026-11-02T15:59:00+00:00
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U.S. manufacturers in October pumped out the most goods — plastics, computers, electrical equipment and so forth — in five years as a growing economy and a revolution in artificial intelligence stoked demand.

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