The Manufacturing Economy with Fexingo: Factories, Industrial Output, and Domestic Production

Episode 3 of The Manufacturing Economy with Fexingo. Lucas and Luna drill into a specific industrial shift reshaping U.S. factory planning: the modular small modular reactor (SMR) pipeline. Lucas opens with a concrete number: the Tennessee Valley Authority just ordered six SMR units from GE Hitachi for its Clinch River site, with first power scheduled for 2033. They walk through why SMRs are attra...

When a single semiconductor component — a programmable logic chip from a mid-tier supplier — failed qualification testing, Boeing had to halt 787 Dreamliner deliveries for nearly three months in 2025. In this episode, Lucas and Luna break down exactly what happened, why a $0.50 chip can ground a $300 million aircraft, and what it reveals about the fragility of modern aerospace supply chains. They...

In the first episode of The Manufacturing Economy, Lucas and Luna examine the troubled construction of Georgia Power's Plant Vogtle Units 3 and 4—the only new nuclear reactors built in the United States in decades. With a final price tag of roughly $35 billion, more than double the original estimate, Vogtle has become a case study in the gap between industrial ambition and execution. They break do...